If there is a government program that is not achieving its intended purpose, let's amend it or get rid of it.

For eight years, President Bush pursued a failed ideology of trickle-down economics based on a theory that tax cuts for the very wealthy and an 'anything goes' license on Wall Street would boost our economy and lift all boats.

The priorities reflected in the House budget are wrong.

One especially clear embodiment of the misplaced priorities of House Republicans is their hostility to clean energy.

Ninety-eight percent of the Republican Members of the Congress have pledged to oppose any increase of tax rates.

I do believe that there is a lot of agreement. But let me just start with what sort of got me going here.

New replaces old. Efficient replaces wasteful. Clean replaces dirty. High tech replaces low tech. Our country benefits when this happens.

But the coal industry said NO. And Republicans said NO. They said NO to innovation.

Newer, cheaper, cleaner technologies are beating coal. The free market is beating coal.

I just hope that the record is clear out there and this gets reported as the real story.

In reality the fact is mountaintop removal is killing people.

In George Bush's words 'We need this coal, our homeland security depends on it.'

Democrats saw this coming. In 2009, the Waxman-Markey bill allocated $60 BILLION to coal.

The reason coal has been on a massive decline in recent years has less to do with President Obama and more to do with the inability of coal to innovate and compete.

You innovate or you die.

The free market is beating coal.

Please understand that the majority of people in Appalachia are against mountaintop removal coal mining.

The coal industry was allowed to do as they please during the 8 years of the Bush Administration.