I commend Senator Murkowski, Senator Cantwell and the entire Committee on what they tried to do for hydro licensing last year.

I rise again today to share the story of this beautiful young lady, Jessie Grubb. She is a West Virginian who passed away a year ago last week, and she was only 30 years old. She was a bright young lady with a great future ahead of her…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I thank the Ranking Member as well.

I appreciate your digital empowerment agenda.

I rise today to call for immediate action on the Miners Protection Act. Today, as we sit here, 22,600 miners have received letters. This is a copy of the letter, and I am going to read it to you. This is a letter they received today…

I would like to just make a comment that I think is important, too, in this area, is we've heard a lot about the states having different regulatory issues, not just in broadband, but in transportation and everything.

I expect you will be a forceful advocate for the intelligence community in those discussions, while maintaining an unwavering respect for the rule of law.

Simply put, it's essential that Congress authorize these authorities to help keep the country safe while protecting our constitutional rights.

I think people are depending on us.

We didn't reduce any of the 17 agencies. We still have the same 17 agencies.

I am here to address an issue that I think is of great importance to this country and to this administration; that is, the nomination of Scott Pruitt to be the new EPA Administrator. We are nearly 8 years removed now from what we…

I have seven requests for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority leaders. COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES The Committee on Armed Services is authorized to meet during the…

The screening that occurs in those small airports can be exceedingly important when we saw what happened.

I would ask unanimous consent that we could introduce into the record a letter from the Association of General Contractors of America and their concern for the infrastructure and modernization of our regulatory reform.

It has been something that means a lot to me as a construction industry and I spent, again, 51 years in it.

the anti-coal fervor that the Obama administration put in place; 83,000 coal miners lost their job.

Absolutely, we have got to have reliable baseload, and that could be a combination of nuclear, I think coal should still be in a mix and can be, and of course natural gas.

we have seen our coal industry collapse.