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Have those been changed at all, projections up through 2040, or do they seem to be fairly accurate, do you think?

Just let us do our jobs.

Because of price, yes.

This bill will give us more certainty.

Senator Bill 2446, the Improving Coal Combustion Residuals Regulation Act of 2016, Senator Hoeven and I introduced this legislation in January, continuing our efforts to find a common sense approach to ensuring safe disposal of coal ash.

The Government doesn't do its job as well as it should.

Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member, and my fellow colleague from West Virginia, Senator Capito, it is good to be with you all and I really appreciate you all allowing us to come present before you.

Basically, it gets back to the people who don't want any fossil burnt whatsoever, because the residual of fossil is coal ash.

The American Coal Council notes that beneficial use and reuse of this material is a means of ensuring billions of dollars of economic benefits, supporting the creating and maintenance of hundreds of thousands of jobs across many…

Subtitle D is self-implementing.

I remain concerned about the parts of West Virginia--more than 12,000 locations--that will still find themselves on the wrong side of the digital divide.

I commend you and your staff for getting the Connect America Fund (CAF) II up and running.

I want to make it fairly obvious that we must have a Lifeline program that helps low-income Americans obtain access to broadband in order for them to participate in today's digital economy.

I support the existing statutory obligation to promote competition and choice in how consumers access their pay television programming.

Last week, Senator Fischer and I introduced the Spoofing Prevention Act of 2016, designed to update the law and provide the FCC with more enforcement tools to combat these abusive phone scams.

Could I just make sure that I ask at the very end, could we get you to come to Longview and see the tremendous efficiency that is operating there without CCS, and how effective they have been able to do that at half the cost of a CCS…

I just came back from China in October, and the NEA in China said they are not going to promote CCS.

The focus has been trying to force the existing coal-fired powerplants to add carbon capture and storage as an after-market retrofit, even though virtually every nation on the globe has turned their backs on CCS.