Tomorrow is Workers' Memorial Day to remember and honor those who have died from their work.

We vowed to improve safety in the mines, and we passed the MINERs Act, which we thought was pretty good.

Statistics from the mining industry offer dramatic proof that improved laws and regulations make a huge difference in workers' safety.

Please send a clear message to companies that safety is important.

The Congress must act.

The Protecting America's Workers Act is a powerful tool to allow families to have a say in investigations.

We have to the reach the point in this country that miners, without hesitation, report unsafe conditions.

The Federal Government has to do a better job of publicizing miners' safety rights and increasing their support of miners who exercise those rights.

Five coal mining disasters in barely 4 years is not only a crisis, it's a national disgrace.

It is time to hold CEOs and corporate Boards of Directors accountable when the facts reveal systematic problems with health and safety compliance.

The first priority and concern of all in the coal or other mining industry must be the health and safety of its most precious resource, the miner.

MSHA can and should be more pro-active and effective in using all the enforcement tools Congress provided in the Mine Act.

Unless operators do what the law requires of them, and do so each and every day--not just when a government inspector is physically on site--miners will continue to be exposed to needless hazards to their health and safety.

This is terribly wrong.

Safety is also about State and Federal Government stepping in; I think, toughening up our laws, where appropriate.

I am here to represent the miners and their families in West Virginia.

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I could not believe Bill Frist was going to do this. He decided to pursue a rules change that would kill the filibuster for judicial nominations.

this is the end of the Senate if we change the filibuster rule.

I stand with our late colleague, Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, when it comes to measures designed to eliminate or substantially limit the basic structure of current filibuster rules.

It would be the end of the Senate as we know it and it was going to be Armageddon.