Well the people who get hurt the most are the elderly and the poor who pay the higher prices and cannot afford it.

No one seems to want to come to a balance where we can provide between the environment and the economy, and I think that's our biggest frustration.

He is a great West Virginian with three sons, and he is also a colonel who serves in the West Virginia National Guard.

I have not found a person in my state that does not care, that's not just the environmentalists that wanted the clean air and clean water, but also they want to have a balance to where they can make a living and provide the energy.

it is hard not to believe there has not been a war on coal.

Ironically, some of the first impacted by the President's Clean Power Plan are those who can least afford it where poverty is rampant in places like the Crow Tribe, in places like West Virginia.

Improvements have been made. I would say I know that Senator Warren's questioning and Mr. Hecker's response basically has West Virginia in the crosshairs.

As we're seeing the industry today, coal companies are not too big to fail.

If they lose these jobs, the unemployment rate is going to go from about 45 percent to north of 80 percent because they mine coal on the Crow Reservation.

The country cannot function, can it?

It is clear that the current situation is not acceptable.

I applaud this effort to try to get more technical assistance but I am--but I am wondering if we are chasing the wrong rabbit.

there are none in America operating commercially, is that correct?

is Mildred Schmidt going to have to pay more for her electricity?

My State of West Virginia is experiencing a crisis. West Virginia is leading the country in a rather grim category: drug overdoses. This issue goes beyond party lines, and it is ripping our State apart. President Obama is bringing national…

The State revolving fund has been used as a pawn and I know in 2013 the president in his budget slashed almost 50 percent out of the money, out of the SRO.

We got to have more money at the other end.

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