Ron Wright: “So many of the freedoms that we enjoy here in the United States... are not enjoyed universally.”

As we have heard today, there is bipartisan agreement that Department of Labor oversight of the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund has fallen short for decades during both Democrat and Republican administrations.

They will use children--to cross that river and the children are sitting on the drugs on the rafts.

I would love for Congress to revisit that piece of legislation and reform the bonus so it is more targeted to the people who truly need the help.

It is disappointing that my Democrat colleagues have decided to schedule this hearing only hours after the GAO publicly released its report.