"Kentucky is doing a great job with our exchange. As of this morning, we have 350,000 people that have explored the Web site."
"I have enormous affection for that region and the people in it."
"According to the title of this hearing, we are going to hear about the perspective of coal communities, but let me assure you, the concerns of residents in the coal communities of Kentucky do not stop..."
"We knew that then. And yet coal-mining employment still increased from 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012."
"They are interested in their health and the harm mountaintop removal mining is doing to their families, friends and neighbors."
"We must also consider the impact on the communities that are downwind."
"if he is actually engaged in a war on coal as it affects coal miners, he is not doing a very good job of it because coal mining employment has actually improved."
"I know better than anybody perhaps what is like to lose that amount of jobs, but we need a comprehensive solution and we need a bipartisan solution."
"a huge number have already done so, actually have enrolled in affordable insurance for the first time"
"the experience in Kentucky has been extraordinarily successful"
"So we believe that you grow the economy from the middle class out."