I appreciate my colleague yielding. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of the Preventing Government Waste and Protecting Coal Mining Jobs in America Act introduced by my colleague from Ohio. Mr. Chairman, there is a war on coal by the…

I thank the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gohmert). I thank the gentlewoman from Missouri (Mrs. Hartzler) for your leadership in bringing to light an incredibly important issue that is going to be debated right across the street from where we…

I thank the chairman for yielding, and I want to thank the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Tipton) for leading on this issue. Madam Chair, I rise in strong support of this legislation that finally puts a check and a balance on Federal…

I don't believe every single cable subscriber should be mandated by the Federal Government to buy what anyone else might be selling.

the time for re-evaluation is long past.

Congress hasn't gone and revised and updated those laws since this was the device, long past time that we do it.

the quickest way to do this is just for the State Department to grant a presidential permit.

the President often trivializes that, and tries to diminish the job impact.

You just want to go back to work.

the President trivializes this, and acts as if, you know, those aren't good jobs anyway.

We are going to continue pushing it.

the President has the opportunity to sign that permit.