"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Carey, first of all, it's good to see a fellow buckeye here today as we talk about this very, very important topic."
"That's exactly why I have been fighting so hard against this rule rewrite because most of those jobs, as you and I know, come from Ohio's sixth congressional district and the people that I represent."
"I represent Eastern and Southern Ohio and live just 90 minutes away from Charleston in Marietta, Ohio."
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"Reducing coal production nationwide will adversely impact revenues to Federal, State and local treasuries."
"I am deeply concerned that the Obama Administration may be guilty of suppressing inconvenient facts simply because they stand in the way of a different agenda."
"Continuing to work on a rule that knowingly will directly eliminate thousands of jobs and will result in 29,000 people living below the poverty level is inexcusable policy."
"U.S. Attorney Johnson has reached out to the Commission and invited us to engage with his colleagues in a dialogue on the case-declination issue."
"This draft legislation would help create a dependable stream of revenue for the counties that depend on the funding."
"Not surprisingly, the Administration and the Department of the Interior have testified against these common sense reforms."
"Time and again this year this Committee has heard from companies that they were not able to get the environmental permits needed to go forward with job creating projects."