I think you all have seen this. It is a report last week of the VA--the DC VA, stopped surgical because of the equipment.

Some of my Vietnam veterans back home, forty percent of my veterans are Vietnam-era veterans--40 percent.

I think when all of us take a moment to talk about Memorial Day, we can talk about that sacrifice those soldiers made so that all of us who are here today, living and enjoying the freedoms of the United States of America, realize that, in…

I rise today to recognize National Police Week and the service and sacrifice of our country's law enforcement officers. As past Governor of the State of West Virginia, I worked with West Virginia State Police very often and saw firsthand…

I hope that all of you--we are very much concerned about this, very much concerned about security of our country and their involvement.

Let me just say that I--it's been told to me that the Department of Defense needs about 800 tons of rare earth elements per year, and I want to make sure that you know, West Virginia has the opportunity to provide this country with the…

today is a glorious day. It is a great day for this country because we and my colleagues, I believe, will confirm Heather Wilson to be Secretary of the Air Force. There are many reasons why it is appropriate for Heather Wilson to be…

earlier today, the Senate voted to pass the Omnibus appropriations bill for 2017. This bill is a product of bipartisan negotiations and hard work on the part of our Appropriations Committee, of which I am proud to be a member, and the…

I certainly appreciate the kind comments from my friend and fellow Senator from West Virginia, Mr. Manchin, who has been a champion of this issue. It has been a pleasure to work together and to have it all work out. We have worked closely…

With that, Mr. President, I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.

There is nothing like seeing the faces of our miners as we did in our offices the other day and I have seen in my office throughout this time--or when it was at the 100-degree rally out on the lawn last fall--to realize the human faces…

The language states that anyone who would have received retiree healthcare coverage from one of these three companies, but for the orders entered in their bankruptcy proceedings terminating the employer's obligations to provide these…

Let me say that both of us representing the great State of West Virginia from both sides of the aisle--a main purpose has been protecting the people who did all the heavy lifting in this great country and gave us the energy we needed to be…

I wholly share Senator Manchin's understanding of this key provision of the legislation. By adopting the language from the Miners Protection Act that is included in the Omnibus appropriations bill, we intended to cover any miners…

I think we have both been able to educate not only our fellow colleagues, our Senators, but basically the entire country on the hard work the miners have done and what they have provided for this country for us to be the superpower of the…

Many of our veterans, we have some great hospitals in West Virginia in Huntington, Beckley, Clarksburg and Martinsburg.

But you are building, we are building baseload of something that could be interrupted. Is that correct?

first of all, I cannot express how humbled I am and how proud I am of all of us, and my colleagues here, my dear friend Senator Warner. We were Governors together. We split the Virginias--Virginia and West Virginia. We worked together. He…