Hal Rogers actually said...

"I calculated it. All the money in this bill amounts to 4 percent of total federal discretionary spending, 4 cents on the dollar."

"The war on coal was real, and this President promised to end that war and I think he has, but in the meantime we have got a lot of wounded soldiers on the battlefield who are desperately in need of so..."

"I have 12,000 laid-off coal miners in my district alone, who are able people, mechanically talented people, who are now trying to find a job at McDonald's, unsuccessfully, I might add."

"Old soldiers never die."