"I hope our colleagues in the Senate will soon see the value in these positive proposals and hold a vote without further delay."
"What the Secret Ballot Protection Act, as I understand it, would do is take away that first option of voluntary recognition."
"This important legislation, championed by our colleague from South Dakota, Representative Kristi Noem, would reassert the authority of tribal leaders over tribal affairs, free from the NLRB intrusion."
"If we don't get this right where you can educate people at a reasonable cost, the rest of that stuff is not going to matter."
"The price of failure. That is huge in this country, when we fail and don't graduate our students."
"One of my major concerns I had, I only have been here 3½ years in Congress, but was the affordability of a college education."
"It is ridiculous when you bring on a standard that is not attainable by any technology in the world."
"In this country right now, there is a war on jobs, there is a bulls eye on the coal industry and jobs in southwest Virginia and West Virginia and Wyoming and Colorado."
"So what you are saying to me is that there is no way forward currently to build a coal-fired power plant in this country."
"This is what bothers me about what is going on in Washington, DC,. now. We are picking winners and losers."
"We have an opportunity now in this country to be energy independent in the next 8 years."