My bill, S. 1691, makes treating our forests the priority it needs to be.

My concern is that it locks up nearly a million acres in various land conservation designations including wilderness.

I rise to express my strong support for the Every Child Achieves Act that is pending before the Senate. I want to commend Chairman Alexander and Ranking Member Murray for working in such a great bipartisan fashion that brought this bill to…

The 21st Century Cures legislation is a great move towards that, but it has to be better.

I do not blame the FDA for being risk adverse, the way Congress treats them.

Unless we find a cure or a new drug therapy to halt the progression of this disease, treatment costs will continue to rise.

Later on this year, I will be introducing the EUREKA Act, Ensuring Useful Research Expenditures is Key for Alzheimer's, EUREKA.

It just seems to be one after another, and I don't know how we are going to stem the loss of confidence of the American public.

If you allow the FDA to continue to not be cooperative, continue to not be transparent, and continue to not be collaborative when it comes to biomarkers, you are going to see all this industry and all this intellectual property go outside…

I appreciate the hard work Senator Toomey has put in. Our staffs have worked together. I wish to thank Chairman Alexander and Ranking Member Murray for their hard work on this. This young man from West Virginia, Jeremy Bell, was the victim…

first of all, let me say to my colleague, Senator Toomey from Pennsylvania, that I have enjoyed working with him on many ventures, if you will, but this is one that is particularly gratifying now that we have finally come to an agreement…

On a separate issue, Mr. Speaker, several weeks ago, President Obama sent two of his top cronies in his war on coal, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Office of Surface Mining Director Joseph Pizarchik, to my home State of West Virginia…

We export about 15 percent of what we produce in coal because obviously this administration doesn't like us burning coal in America.

if we are going to have exports, we ought to at least tax it or get some kind of fee on that export. And all I can say is, with all due respect to those that want to tax our exports, that will require a Constitutional amendment because…

Last week I had the pleasure of meeting with Doug Erwin. Doug is an extraordinary member of our West Virginia community who started the charitable organization called Backpack Buddies. In the summer, Backpack Buddies gives meal supplements…

This amendment would strike $2 million in funding from the Environmental Protection Agency Office of Policy and transfer those funds to the deficit reduction account. The Office of Policy is located within the EPA Office of the…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 62, line 8, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $2,000,000)''. Page 132, line 24, after the dollar amount…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 62, line 8, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $2,000,000)''. Page 62, line 19, after the dollar amount…