Kweisi Mfume: “Both you and I try to find a common path, and where we disagree or diverge, we recognize that we retain that right.”

I thank the distinguished gentlewoman from Florida for yielding. I know there are a lot of people who have a lot to say about someone whom we cared about and loved, and so I do appreciate this opportunity. I thank her and the honorable…

May I inquire as to how much time is remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Maryland has 9 minutes remaining.

I want to speak on behalf of those people. Because our job, at the end of the day, is to preserve and protect the environment and to protect the people who cannot get away from the environment they are in.

We have tried to have discussions with CSX and others who are around and responsible in many respects for the mounds of coal. Those discussions have gone nowhere at all.