Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I thank Senator Manchin for driving this issue. It was done better with him than without him. I thank him for making a world of difference and Senator Casey for his impassioned pleas and reading the letters from mine workers, retired mine workers, widows, retired mine workers in Western Pennsylvania and all over West Virginia and Southeast Ohio. We are all getting letters in our offices that are heartfelt and just make me wonder, why aren't we doing something? I want to share a letter from a lady in Gallipolis, OH, a village. I was just there in the community of Rio Grande earlier this week. She wrote a letter to Mitch McConnell, who is, frankly, the single person standing in the way of doing this. Dear Leader Mitch McConnell: Just to inform you as a member of UMWA that it is vitally important that we keep our insurance. My Husband (Larry) worked 35 years as a miner. He has had bypass surgery this last Aug 8, 2016, also has black lung-- COPD--chronic idiopathic gout, acute bron- chitis . . . And other things. I have history of cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure. . . . We need members of all Congress to consider all that the Coal Miners has contribution to the welfare of this country. Now we ask that they remember commitments made to the Coal Miners. Please keep that promise made to the Coal Miners. Over and over: Please keep that promise made to the coal miners. But instead we hear all kinds of excuses.…”