I am deeply concerned with the Department of Education's decision to reject the Upward Bound applications at West Virginia State University and West Virginia University because of two minor technicalities.

I urge you to again take a commonsense approach and offer these long-standing Upward Bound programs the opportunity to apply to continue to serve the students of West Virginia.

We are getting pummeled by the opiate addiction that goes on in our State and around this country.

I hope you would consider that.

Now, this budget proposes to reduce Federal funding for elementary and secondary education in my State by $30 million more than 20 percent.

I have always been a strong supporter of Career and Technical education.

We want to find out what Comey was thinking at that time. If he thought it was -- had risen to that level of obstruction. And if it had, why hadn't something been done? Why didn't he act when he was still FBI director? If not, was that…

I rise to speak with a lot of my colleagues coming down speaking on the opiate crisis we have in all of our States. West Virginia has been hit the hardest in the Nation right now, and I want to speak to this because it is something we must…

I thank my colleague from West Virginia who is fighting hard on a lot of different fronts to meet the challenge of this opioid and drug abuse epidemic that is sweeping across the country, and it is really hitting us in the rural areas in…

I would hope that you would look into Morgantown, the NETL lab, which is a very, very productive lab and does an awful lot of heavy lifting and a lot of work.

And do you know if--I would like to get a report on this from you all.

we think there is an awful lot of revenue left on the table, a lot of revenue.

Thank you, and God Bless America.

I just wanted to bring that to your attention, sir. It is so serious.

As you know, I come from West Virginia. We do a lot of heavy lifting and we are really dependent upon FERC, a working FERC.

I think we need to have a diversified fuel mix going forward.

if you would even go one step further. With Kaspersky, could you find out if any of your contractors that you rely on is using Kaspersky's software?

General, we have great concerns about.