Everyone in this room today shares a common desire to put America back to work.
Ultimately, if this bill becomes law, it would mean more pollution, more dirty water, more health problems for Americans...
Not only is mountaintop mining--removal mining environmentally harmful, but it's actually a job destroyer, not a job cre...
But it won't put Appalachian miners back to work. The economics of coal work against that.
I'm deeply troubled by the fact that the House passed the Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011 yesterday.
Under the Clean Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency is mandated to 'restore and maintain the chemical, physic...
Scientific research demonstrates that mountaintop removal mining is devastating to both the environment and the health o...
What has this committee done to simply some of the forms? Nothing. So isn't it time for a new approach?
And let us also acknowledge that Congress is sometimes captured by vested interests.
But I am afraid that we are falling into a rut here that is going to be the detriment not only of this committee and thi...
I would urge Members to read Ms. Warren's--one of her books. I have only read the 'The Two-Income Trap.' It is outstandi...