It just doesn't make sense.

So what I am trying to understand is though in 2009, we are in 2012.

you are making it hard for us.

I have got to tell you, when I am opening the mail if it says it is from the Federal Government or the State government or the local government I say, What are they going to take from me now, or, How are they going to regulate me and make…

nobody even read it before they passed it

Coal is abundant. It is accessible. It is affordable.

We rely on sun that may not shine and wind that may not blow.

If those folks showed up, do you think she would be compelled to go down there and thank them for showing up?

I wish we could hold up the paychecks until this becomes more effective and more efficient and doesn't run $1.7 trillion a year in the red.

But it doesn't make sense to me for us to go away from something we already know.

I am mad. I am not going to sit here and watch this great country go down the drain because of upside down thinking people.

Every single penny that the government uses comes out of a hardworking American taxpayer's pocket.

This is not the type of a country that I know of, ruin its greatness.

you can't speak for the American people, and you can't speak for these miners.

Why in the world would we ever, ever turn our back on what we know and how we can offset the rising cost of wages?

I represent 705,687 people in western Pennsylvania. I don't know if they are Republican, Democrat, Independent, Libertarian. I don't know what they are. You know what I do know? They are all Americans.

If we keep shutting down these plants, these coal-powered electric producing plants, there is a dire effect that happens in industry with this.

I am not too far from here, over in Pennsylvania, and there are a lot of my friends that are in the coal business.

It is amazing to me that we have turned our back on a lot of things that we have.

there is a war on coal. I wish we would stop tap dancing and call it what it is.

Yes. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5 minutes.

In 2011, we came to this House for one reason, and it was a motion to recommit. We recommitted to the people of the United States that we were going to change the way business was done in this town. This motion to recommit is a joke. This…

If Medicare Advantage plans don't change benefit packages, the Medicare Advantage cuts are going to result in higher premiums by about $1,800 per beneficiary, voters, by 2017.

In my world, we call that bass ackwards.

I agree with Mr. Clay, there is an evolving truth as we see in this Administration, as we continue to look at programs that are put into effect and we start to wonder, why did we really do this.