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We have double the mortality rate as far as opioid overdoses in military VA than the national average.

I would prefer avoiding imposition of a hard cap that, per se, would require cutting off subsidies to those that otherwise meet eligibility requirements.

So, basically, as we usually do in America, we reward you for bad behavior.

There is no support. I hear no support.

You will be more--if it is capped and you only have a certain amount of money to work with, you are going to be much more efficient and effective with it.

I am concerned about expansion of the Lifeline program to include broadband before additional reforms to curb fraud and abuse are implemented and shown to be effective.

I hear more people complaining about people using these funds for illicit purposes versus legitimate purposes.

If you don't have the infrastructure Lifeline is maybe nice in theory but meaningless in practice.

The Lifeline Program, originally created in 1985, can and should be a targeted means of providing subsidies to those who are truly in need of assistance, but, first, we must address the rampant waste, fraud and abuse that made the program…

I am supportive of targeting funds to unserved areas, and, you know, that is important.

So if you are sitting in the kitchen with this 55-year-old that just lost his job, he has been working 30 years in a coalmine, what do you tell him?

Well, but keep in mind too, Mr. Secretary, you know that coalminers average age is going to be in their 50s.

So my first question of two questions would be to the coal industry to reverse this decline?

Just in 3 years. Three years 45 percent of our coalminers are looking for work.

Even though FERC has said that--and they have testified before us--the concern that they have is that we are going to have rolling blackouts in the Midwest if we don't start replacing these power plants.

The first newspaper I got when I got back there was, dark day for miners. They just announced that 2,268 coalmining jobs were lost.

In the last week, during the break, I returned to West Virginia and was on overload of negative information coming at us in West Virginia.

We look at Europe and we see how some policies over there in which countries like Germany have made decisions to eliminate nuclear energy, has created low wholesale prices, extremely high retail prices, and as a result, Europe has some…