Economic development is difficult work, but the reward for West Virginia is obvious.

Economic development is difficult work, but the reward for West Virginia is obvious.

I rise to talk about something that is unseen but really impacts every aspect of our daily lives, something that has major implications on the future of my State and many rural States just like the Presiding Officer's rural areas, and that…

Because my whole State should be.

I look forward to answering questions you may have.

if you all did not call and raise so much Cain with us about because we will not give veterans their drugs they want

Well, this is what I was saying, too. I have been told basically--and I have talked to a lot of our servicemembers who have been deployed, and they are able to get anything they want, any concoction they want, just to get through the day.

We do not have one city or one town over 50,000 population. So we are a State of towns and about 1,800,000 people.

You got to be kidding me. This is----

Thanks to Chairman Stauber, Ranking Member Ocasio-Cortez, and all who have worked on this bill.

I include with this testimony the text of a letter of support for its companion bill in the Senate.

We are not saying, aggressively. Some of these nurses know better than what anybody else knows.

We have got to do something.

We need a partnership, a co-partnership here, if you will, with GSA and OMB to work through this issue.

I ask that the rollcall vote begin now, immediately. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Vote on Silfen Nomination The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Silfen nomination?

We need a partnership, a co-partnership here, if you will, with GSA and OMB to work through this issue.

I rise today to bring attention to the issues that Americans are facing at home--the problems that I see and hear from my constituents in West Virginia, and I am sure the Presiding Officer hears many of the same in your home State. I want…

Some of my colleagues on the Committee, particularly those from the western states, have much more firsthand experience with the impact of wildfires than some of us.