Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, I appreciate the gentlewoman's comments and recognize that they did plus it up a little bit. But when you look at the folks that I represent and the thousands of folks who have lost their jobs in the mining industry, we have to do more. We have to do more. Everybody likes to talk about we are going to help, we are going to transition. But some of my counties, quite frankly, what are you going to transition them to? There are no great roads. We should work on that as well. Frankly, we have got trees and mountains. Recently, one of my counties had to build a new high school because all of their high schools were in the floodway. We had two pieces of land that were flat enough to build the high school on in the entire county. So when people say transition, I always say: What are you going to do when you don't have the land to build factories and you don't have the resources to do something else? They have always done mining. They can continue to do mining. Let's meet and compromise here and put research money in so that they can continue to mine, continue to have jobs, and we can have a cleaner burning fuel, but still use our coal. I yield back the balance of my time.”