It is a sad affair. I wish you would come and talk with the folks that these regulations are very deeply affecting.

before I start my formal remarks, I would like to make a few comments about what has occurred in terms of the cloture vote and in terms of some of the discussion that we have had most recently. I wanted to react, first of all, to something…

When they cause a problem, the mines are fined immediately, and they have to come up with the money.

when I go home to my beautiful State of West Virginia, I have always said that if I can't explain it, I can't vote for it. When this process began, I was supportive of the diplomatic efforts led by Secretaries Kerry and Moniz. I have…

If a government causes a problem, should the government clean it up on their dime, or should they pass that on to the taxpayers of the country?

Isn't that better than burying our material and telling our grandchildren its your problem to deal with later on?

But if we subsidized our alternative fuel so dramatically, why aren't we doing that with spent fuel rods instead of burying it?

I want to know, you wouldn't be comfortable with it in America, so why should we be comfortable with it in Iran?

I know, Senator Cantwell, you and Senator Murkowski and I are going to continue to work closely together on this very topic.

I want to commend Lisa Murkowski, the Senator from Alaska and Chairman of the Committee, for advancing a reasonable solution on these difficult issues.

States should not have to begin implementing these costly and burdensome plans until an unappealable judicial decision has been reached.

States should not be required to implement a State or Federal plan that the State's Governor determines would negatively impact economic growth.

As we all know, on Monday, President Obama and his Environmental Protection Agency announced their final clean power grab.

In my view, this is why we need the ARENA Act now more than ever.

The President talks about CCS and uses an example of CCS that is not economical or technologically feasible.

To think we would not want to have policies that move forward to keep our children healthy is a smokescreen of some sort.

I encourage Governors of each State to analyze the impacts of those clean energy jobs and other jobs that are created and sustained by the coal or natural gas industry.

Actually, in my bill in Section 4(b), I am asking for reporting, specific reporting...