Senator Capito's leadership on this issue is to be commended, and I am delighted to be a co-sponsor with her on this legislation.

first of all, I thank my colleague, Senator Capito. We come from the same State, and we have known each other for a long time, and we basically represent the same people, who have given so much to this country. I want to thank her. This is…

The new EPA standard will hit our manufacturing community hard at a time when we are desperately in need of economic development in many areas of the country, including Appalachia.

I think we have a unique situation with a small refinery that is being penalized because they are producing far more diesel than gasoline.

Compromise isn't a bad word. You understand that improving good governance, the economy, and the environment is not a zero-sum game.

One of these bills is my Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2016, which is co-sponsored by Senator Flake from Arizona and Senator Manchin from West Virginia.

Delay increases costs. The costs to California obviously are going to be very good.

I certainly want to look for common sense solutions, ways to maybe massage the issue to make it so that some of the concerns that we have heard voiced today would be addressed.

In my view, that is an acknowledgment from EPA that just extending the deadlines is not necessarily an advocacy for dirtier air or having a higher ozone standard.

I rise today to express the urgent need to take up and pass a piece of legislation which has great meaning for me and my fellow West Virginians and which is important to our Nation's coal-mining community, and that is the Miners Protection…

today I wish to recognize and commend the outstanding career of Dr. Beverly ``Jo'' Harris, one of the State of West Virginia's most respected educators, on the occasion of her retirement. During her tenure as the first president of…

Moreover, EPA drastically missed its implementation deadlines and failed to designate non-attainment areas under the 2008 standard until May 2012.

We ought to do that, Mr. Chairman; if I could request that. Put a working group together with you all?

I think what needs to be considered here is that--I can just tell you what our staff feels like, and the caseworkers.

Let me tell you one thing, if some of us could bring our heads of our caseworkers in our States and bring them to sit with you.

Although Congress intended to balance the goal of building a nationwide network with an opportunity for states to build their own, it certainly did not intend to create an incentive for states to opt out of FirstNet's network.

Well, Colonel, I look forward to voting for you and supporting you and helping you in any way we can our mission.

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