My amendment would make a couple of slight changes to two new advisory boards created in this bill: the STEM education advisory panel and a new Department of Energy advisory committee. My amendment sets the total number of members for…

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…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 49, line 2, insert ``The Advisory Panel shall consist of 15 members, with 3 members appointed by the…

Using the remainder of my time, Mr. Chairman, I would have to say that I appreciate the gentlewoman's comments, and I appreciate the chairman's support. The bottom line is that we are losing thousands of jobs in the central Appalachian…

I have an amendment at the desk, Mr. Chairman. The CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 21, line 5, after the dollar amount insert ``reduced by $50,000,000)''. Page 22, line 20, after the dollar…

Over the past 6 years, the policy of the current administration has been to wage a war on coal that has crippled the coal industry and left areas like Virginia's Ninth District economically devastated, and I believe it has put our access…

But you understand that Laurence Tribe, when he was here to testify, I asked him about collateral estoppel...

I would submit the plan is flawed and that is why we need this bill.

To achieve the carbon emission reductions required by the proposed regulations, customers in Virginia will likely pay significantly more for their electricity.

Ladies and gentlemen, I have to tell you that the only reason we are here is because of the unique procedural posture that the Senate finds itself in, and that unique posture is a perversion of the democratic principles upon which our…

If the gentleman will continue to yield for an additional question, Mr. Speaker, I would ask the gentleman, it is his understanding that we would take that up later, but that means that the bill that we previously passed--the language that…

I demand a recorded vote. =========================== NOTE =========================== February 27, 2015, on page H1496, the following appeared: Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote. The online version should be…

I ask the gentleman, what then happens to the underlying language where we were protecting the firefighters and others in regard to the bill as it originally stood and as it related to them being covered under PPACA?

while workers in central Appalachia, and particularly in the 9th District of Virginia, which I happen to represent, are being laid off in the mines because of EPA policy

``. . . and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected…

I am convinced we have to have a national policy.

I am convinced we have to have a national label.

And I believe that that particular division would be a part of the Ebola response, I am correct in that?

I am curious, the President apparently has requested a fair amount of money, and part of that is related to Ebola.

Now, you have indicated that you don't know about whether these monies were transferred.

I believe we should have reasonable travel restrictions.

Don't you think we ought to at least restrict travel of dogs?

Isn't it true there are still a lot of questions about how Ebola is spread?

As the saying goes, ``You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.'' A year into investigations regarding the IRS improperly targeting…

I represent the coalfields in Appalachia and southwest Virginia. We lose jobs on a regular basis.