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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· Feb 11, 2015

$120 million of tax revenues come from our coal industry in Montana that fund our teachers and our infrastructure.

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· Feb 11, 2015

Why not be the leader in technology since the rest of the world is using it?

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· Feb 11, 2015

I have always said we are all entitled to our opinion, just not our own facts.

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· Feb 11, 2015

When you warned, on February 12 of last year, that our military is on a path where the force may become, 'so degraded and so unready that it would be immoral to use force.'

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Dan Sullivan
@dansullivan· Republican · AK· Feb 11, 2015

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate be in a period of morning business, with Senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· Feb 11, 2015

They see a direct threat right now on their futures and livelihood as it relates to these regulations we are seeing, not coming from the DOE, but more so from the EPA.

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· Feb 11, 2015

So our manufacturing base, in fact, a good friend, Senator Peters, newly elected from Michigan, explained the importance of low cost electricity to keep our manufacturing base of automobile industry there in Michigan.

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· Feb 11, 2015

Basically you want fossil or you expect fossil to give you five times more the energy to make the system run in America.

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· Feb 11, 2015

I need to remind, I think, all of us that coal remains the single largest source of electricity supply in America.

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· Feb 11, 2015

There is not another coal-fired plant being built or even in the planning stage of being built in America that I know of.

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· Feb 10, 2015

If I could just give his family some relief and some closure.

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Dan Sullivan
@dansullivan· Republican · AK· Feb 10, 2015

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, General, for your testimony. It is very enlightening.

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· Feb 10, 2015

I think the people in West Virginia will support--we will maintain to make sure that we're able to prevent that from happening again from that part of the world.

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Dan Sullivan
@dansullivan· Republican · AK· Feb 10, 2015

When we're looking at our challenges--and there are many national security challenges--that we level with the American people.

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Dan Sullivan
@dansullivan· Republican · AK· Feb 10, 2015

EPA's interpretation is also unreasonable because it would bring about an enormous transformative expansion of EPA's regulatory authority without clean congressional authorization.

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Dan Sullivan
@dansullivan· Republican · AK· Feb 10, 2015

The mere fact that 31 States oppose this power plan and more than half believe it is not legal under the Clean Air Act.

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Dan Sullivan
@dansullivan· Republican · AK· Feb 10, 2015

It is not just my view. Are you familiar with the recent Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA decision by the U.S. Supreme Court?

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