I join with my colleagues to honor those recipients of the Medal of Honor. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the heroic efforts of Colonel Wesley Lee Fox of the United States Marine Corps. Colonel Fox currently resides in Blacksburg…

I am so glad to be with you this evening. So many people in Washington and in other parts of the country believe that it was the intent of the Founding Fathers to bleach from our society our religious beliefs, and you have heard others…

General warrants, writs of assistance, that's what we're looking at, and the Founding Fathers found that to be anathema. What they're doing does violate the Fourth Amendment. We took an oath to uphold the Constitution, and we're supposed…

I would hope that the legal department would see as a part of their duty at the very least is to make sure that what they are doing is lawful...

I believe if we use our energy sources-- which I believe can be a bipartisan issue and it is in my part of the world in central Appalachia--but if we use our energy resources, I am convinced that the United States of America can remain the…

Glad to be with you this evening. I thought it was interesting. You just raised the issue where the President said that costs would necessarily skyrocket. I actually carry that quote around in my back pocket. So I pulled it out, my little…

I would say that tonight has been interesting. We have talked about ObamaCare and we have talked about clean air and having these things; yet what we have are two different things coming out of the administration. On the one hand…

I thank you so much for the opportunity to speak this afternoon on these important issues. It's true that offshore in Virginia is something we've been discussing since 2004. What's interesting is that a lot of the folks said, You don't…

Are you saying it's just as safe as the oil that goes through pipelines in hundreds of thousands of miles already across the United States of America?

Let me say briefly that one of the interesting things I note is that when we were talking about this at the Energy and Commerce Committee, Lisa Jackson was in there and we talked about regulating greenhouse gases and how that was going to…

I would say it is interesting that the President has taken this action to have a war on coal when his Department of Energy has been investing in some clean coal technology, maybe not as much as some of us would like, but some clean coal…

I would ask the gentleman if he doesn't agree with me that we would be much better off as a Nation if we focused on a way to have affordable energy, clean coal technology, and not just have a war on coal, and thus create those jobs that…

Ladies and gentlemen of the House, I too am here to discuss the President's war on coal. The President would have you believe that we must choose between the environment and affordable, reliable energy, but that is not the case. There is a…

That is one of the problems that we see in my district. I have a lot of counties that are really hurting. And it's not because we couldn't have jobs, it's because Washington is getting in the way. Every month we're having layoffs in some…

Well, it's a war on everything that we hold dear when you get right down to it. Because the truth of the matter is, when you're the number one nation in the world, everybody else wants to be where you are. Right now we're the number one…

Let me follow up on that, if I might, real quick. In one of my counties, when you take away the money that comes from Richmond and take away the money that comes from Washington for education, 70 percent of the tax dollars in that…

we are trying to do black letter.

we are making the citizens no longer have confidence.

if I might take another minute. I know I am over time, but if I could take a minute just to pontificate.

These field hearings are so important, as Congressman Roe said.

This is a way that they not only get their opinions heard by some congressmen, but also all of this goes into the official record.

I serve on the Energy and Commerce Committee, so most of my time has been spent defending the rights of citizens to have affordable energy--aka coal--and use that.

I would strongly encourage that the Department of Energy take a very serious look at that and see what we can do to fast track that project to see if it works.

I stand here today on the floor of the United States House of Representatives, and I come to talk about matters of import to this country and what should be important to each and every one of us. I often look, as I'm sitting on the floor…

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 18, line 8, strike ``$35,000 per unit'' and insert ``$15,000 per unit''. The CHAIR. The gentleman is…