We have just gone through 8 years, we have seen a loss of baseload capacity across this country and we are going to have to rebuild now after 8 years of a war on coal.

we can't get the permits to get those pipelines built.

I'm a little concerned about lack of global standards, is cost. No one has mentioned cost up here.

As one of just two licensed engineers in Congress, this is an intriguing process that we're going to undergo.

I don't see anything about third party certification for public safety, putting public safety first overriding competitive pressures.

I think the intention of WIFIA is to use those as a jumping point; not intending to decrease their value or decrease their amounts but to use them as a leverage point.

Thank you to our State's junior Senator, Shelley Moore Capito, for her assistance in improving West Virginia's rural water infrastructure.

I rise to express my concern with the nomination of Betsy DeVos as the Secretary of Education. The State of West Virginia is a State made up of a lot of small towns. We don't have any what you call large metropolitan areas. We are an urban…

I rise also to speak about the rule. I want everyone to know that the State of West Virginia has been a heavy- lifting State. We are a construction State. We mined the coal that made the steel that built the guns and factories that enabled…

As you move forward with MFII, we ask that your efforts help to incent wireless carriers to preserve, upgrade, and expand mobile broadband in rural America, rather than degrade and reduce competition in areas that need it most.

I am here to speak in support of the Congressional Review Act on the stream protection rule. I want to say to those who participated in the last election--where part of the discussion was the Federal Government knows all and needs to be in…

I think we are on a positive role there and a positive movement.

We need a functioning Environmental Protection Agency, and Americans deserve the change at the EPA that they voted for this fall.

80 percent of life is showing up. They are living on 20 percent of life right now.

I ask unanimous consent that following disposition of the Chao nomination, the Senate resume consideration of the Tillerson nomination postcloture, and the Senate recess until 2 p.m., with the time during recess counting postcloture on the…

Disagreement with a nominee's position cannot justify a decision to boycott a scheduled Committee vote.

This issue has come up literally every year since I've been in this committee for the last 6 years and I keep being told that everything is going to be fine, that we have got things under control.

It is also within veterans. In my veteran corps it has been very detrimental to them.