So, to me, it comes across more as just an effort to have bigger, broader, stronger, more intrusive Government as compared to really helping people and their economy.

I think we're picking winners and losers because I don't see one and a half jobs being created for the hundreds of billions of dollars that have been spent.

It's my understanding that this hearing was to examine the effects of major regulations on the energy and the industrial sectors.

She said it's about global leadership and I think wow, that was--that was a jaw-dropping revelation that she came out--this is not about the environment.

as the Presiding Officer knows very well, we have been asking for passage of the Miners Protection Act not just for our State of West Virginia but for all miners across America, as well as the retired miners who have done everything that…

I want to thank my colleague from Indiana and the Senator from Ohio, the Presiding Officer, and my colleague from West Virginia. This is truly a bipartisan bill. As we stand before you, my colleague and I were both born and raised in West…

I ask unanimous consent to speak in a colloquy with some of my colleagues concerning the Miners Protection Act. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Miners Protection Act

if I can, I will give a little background and then we will go right to Senator Portman. I thank the Senator from Ohio. I appreciate it very much. The Presiding Officer understands very well. We are both from the same State, born and raised…

some people say this is a union versus a nonunion issue. That is not the case at all. In 1946, anybody who was mining coal was a member of the United Mine Workers of America, almost 99.9 percent. With that type of participation, having all…

I want to thank Senator Manchin, certainly for putting this colloquy together. I want to thank Senator Portman of Ohio, Senator Donnelly of Indiana, and Senator Brown of Ohio. We are deeply affected by this, and the facts bear out that we…

wow, I come to the floor of the Senate to talk about a real emergency that just occurred in my State of West Virginia. I know many of you across the country have witnessed and seen the terrible destruction from the sudden flash flood that…

I say thank you to my friend and colleague from Ohio. I thank you so much. You are absolutely correct. Of those 90,000 miners, 27,000 come from my State of West Virginia. When we talk about who are the miners, they are the most patriotic…

We ought to be building on the notion of multiple use of public lands in our part of the country.

I told everybody at those town meetings in Eastern Oregon that I'm certainly open to ideas and suggestions to plans to provide a road map for conservation.

I look forward to working with my colleagues on this in a bipartisan manner.

It's very troubling to see that some of our colleagues in the other body, in the House, somehow think it makes sense to seize defeat from the jaws of victory.

It lacks common sense, but that is not new to this town.

we just can't get our act together to where we have a clear direction of who's in charge