Howard Griffith

I mentioned in the previous panel that there was an article in the Roanoke Times, Roanoke, Virginia, my area, at least the beginning of my area, and in the article that was talking about the Virginia Tech water study team, it said that…

How do I defend an EPA that that is the condemnation coming out of my district from the professor, Dr. Edwards?

This bill, like the others before it dealing with dams, deals with a dam in Alleghany County, Virginia, the Gathright Dam project. It, too, was given a license. It, too, for various reasons amongst the agencies in the company seeking to…

Like the previous bills, this is a dam project in which the license was issued, but for various reasons, the timeline has expired or is about to expire, and this would give it up to an additional 6 years in which to get the project…

I apologize. We had a meeting related to the coal industry and black lung.

I would see as the EPA's war on coal and the shutdown of like half of the industry in the last couple of years.

There are folks who are saying that they just want to slow everything down in order to stop gas pipelines and other things.

These power companies are having to make these decisions well in advance, and as a result of that, they are building all kinds of gas pipelines.

Isn't this going to be a cap-and-trade scheme? She refused to use those words.

She insisted that this was not a cap-and-trade scheme.

Congress was particularly concerned about electric-generating units being subject to double regulation.

The language that the House judged to be appropriate was initially proposed by the President of the United States.

I love the people of West Virginia and my district borders them, I come from the original Commonwealth of Virginia.

I have been a supporter of this and expanding the MTM program and cosponsor of Cathy McMorris Rodgers' bill to do so because I think better adherence to medication will keep our seniors healthy and lower our cost for chronic care.

I think it is important that you change your testing methods.

Volkswagen needs to stand up and say, 'OK, we understand. We will buy your car back at what the fair market value of that vehicle was prior to this notice coming out.'

I believe that I was sold something that was different than what it was purported to be.

It appears that the President and the Environmental Protection Agency have, in effect, declared war on affordable energy for families in my State and throughout the country.

The overarching policy of the Clean Power Plan is to limit the amount of carbon that an individual State can put out.

Where you disenfranchised the people of Appalachia because you didn't come to talk to any of the coal-producing areas in Central Appalachia.

I find that hard to understand. Is it your position that you all are not heading towards a cap-and-trade program?

I want to talk, that's fair. Is that fair?

I certainly have no quarrel with the committee or the committee chairman or the subcommittee chairman. I think this is a great pilot project, which was why I thought it was a brilliant idea, which is why I wanted to at least put this on…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 26, line 7, strike ``3'' and insert ``6''. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 333, the gentleman from…

Reclaiming my time, I would say that I don't know the gentlewoman's concerns on this particular bill. I do believe, as a Congress, we ought to be working to make sure that we have input on all of these advisory committees, whether it is on…