Matt Cartwright

The coal industry's risky self-insurance practices have endangered those benefits, and the mismanagement of funds and the lack of oversight by the Department of Labor have made a bad situation worse.

What is your answer about why that appeal was never adjudicated between 2015 and when they filed for bankruptcy in 2019?

What are the consequences of that Murray bankruptcy for the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund?

I think we can all agree there hasn't been a war on coal going on in 2018 and 2019.

I will be introducing the Black Lung Benefit Improvement Act to ensure that miners have access to unbiased medical evidence, ample representation, and up to date benefit payments.

We have cause for bipartisan celebration. The USMCA trade deal was signed into law yesterday. I want to congratulate the Democratic House negotiating team and thank them for their hard work for the better part of a year to make this a…

Don't let anybody tell you that all we do here in the House of Representatives is investigate the White House. We have passed 275-plus bipartisan bills for the good of the people. For hardworking families, we have passed legislation to…

Over 7 million American men, women, and children depend on insulin to keep themselves alive; but, between 2012 and 2016, the price of insulin nearly doubled, forcing many of these Americans to ration this lifesaving drug. It is…

Congress exists to serve the American people by passing legislation that will protect their rights and promote their welfare. Since January of this year, House Democrats have been vigorously legislating for the people and have passed more…

The government of Puerto Rico and the Oversight Board oppose amendments to PROMESA.

I thank the gentleman from Rhode Island for yielding. Madam Chair, we have heard the stories, and we will continue to hear them, of all of the employees and the consumers who have been tricked into giving away their constitutional right to…

I want to talk a little bit today about accountability. Accountability is something we teach our children. Let me burden you with a short story. About 20 years ago, I am sitting in my kitchen. I think it was a Saturday morning. My son…

I urge my Republican colleagues to jump on board, particularly those who are engaging in the 'whataboutism' that we have heard today.

And how many of you would agree that these people should be prohibited from intimidating or coercing an individual to alter or censor, or retaliating against an individual for failing to alter or censor, scientific or technical findings?

How many people think that these people should be prohibited from suppressing, altering, interfering with, or otherwise impeding the timely release and communication of scientific or technical findings?

How many of you would agree that these people that I just described, listed, should be prohibited from engaging in dishonesty, fraud, deceit, misrepresentation, coercive manipulation, or other scientific or research misconduct?

I want to talk about Federal employees or Federal contractors engaged in scientific research analyzing the results of scientific research, communicating the results of scientific research, or making policy decisions based on the results of…

If you believe in scientific integrity, you should be a co-sponsor of the Scientific Integrity Act sponsored by Mr. Tonko for these reasons and the other ones expressed today.

Thank you for that answer.

But knowing the vital part that private contractors are going to be playing, are you satisfied that NASA has enough personnel...

The language would give you carte blanche authority to move funds among NASA's accounts from this year forward if you determine that transfers are necessary in support of the establishment of the U.S. strategic presence on the Moon

I mean, you go to buy a car and there is a car salesman standing there, and what do you ask him? You ask him how much is the car.

We increased NASA's funding by $815 million, which fully funded the lunar landing program and robustly funded scientific discovery and STEM education.

So we have to drill down on this stuff.

What NOAA did in response to political pressure hurts faith in science as an institution and I fear things like that will damage the appeal of science as a career to the next generation.