What a wonderful tool for emergency services to have in their toolbox to be able to meet these challenges within hours.

I think mandatory for all of them ought to be the movie, Hidden Figures, and I think that would inspire any young lady in this day and age.

A special thanks for Senator Capito for reaching out to me about speaking today and to Senator Manchin.

The topic is, I think, very timely and very important because of the promise that STEM education holds, not just for a stronger economy and job opportunities, but for the health and wellbeing of those, our neighbors in all of our States.

This committee stepped up last year by providing $19 million in last year's Omnibus Bill to help displaced coal workers with job training and development.

We have a thing called Mine Minds. And what this group has done, two entrepreneurs, the one lady had a brother who was a laid off miner in another State.

if we don't do something to help them, if we don't do something to make sure that they have the skills that they need to be successful in another career, West Virginia is going to continue to slide, and frankly, we can't afford to.

I was at the Polish Embassy and we were doing a collaboration, State of West Virginia, working as far as in connectivity and trying to exchange in some of our high-tech industries.

I just--everything everyone is doing realizing that basically every child is not going to go to 4-year baccalaurean school.

The Polish ambassador was bragging about they are producing and educating more engineers in Poland than the entire United States.

I would like to welcome everyone to today's important hearing on advanced materials and production.

Thanks to Congressman McKinley, we built a bridge in his backyard back in 1996.

Everyone in Washington is interested in renewables. Why something like hydro would go 7 to 10 years or longer, as compared to solar and wind?

So is it bureaucracy that is holding it up? Why don't we have more?

Local electric and natural gas utilities urgently need more natural gas.

I am just worried that we really don't have the sense of urgency that, I believe, is called for in this situation.

I would like to talk about an issue that I've gotten involved in, and that's removing drivers from the roads who are under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

Lack of natural gas is also slowing the shift to cleaner electricity and is strangling economic development.