David Roe

Fifty-one percent is not control. It is ownership.

So our veterans can get the cutting edge. They are not going to get stuck in 'it's not in the book, so you can't have it.'

There is obviously a prosthetist sitting right to your left. That is a very individualized therapy.

A patient will be able to come into the clinic, and that patient won't know the difference.

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.

Over the last year this committee has taken action on numerous occasions to defend the rights of workers and employers from the harmful agenda of the National Labor Relations Board.

I hope our colleagues in the Senate will soon see the value in these positive proposals and hold a vote without further delay.

The price of failure. That is huge in this country, when we fail and don't graduate our students.

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.

One of my major concerns I had, I only have been here 3½ years in Congress, but was the affordability of a college education.

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.

That is very disturbing to me.

It is not only jobs, it is national security, that is what we are talking about.

We have an opportunity now in this country to be energy independent in the next 8 years.

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.

There was a law that was passed and sponsored by Jeff Davis from Kentucky, that is probably the most important piece of legislation that has been passed out of the House that is sitting in the Senate gathering dust, that will affect every…

So it is a great concern to me that the EPA does not seem to take into consideration the negative impacts on families and on jobs when they put new regulations in that have minimal impact and ratchet up the costs tremendously.

It is ridiculous when you bring on a standard that is not attainable by any technology in the world.

What I do not think this administration understands is it is just not coal mining.

Higher electricity prices are another hidden tax--another hidden tax--on the middle-income earners of the United States of America.

And what we need in Washington, DC, is some good old southwest Virginia common sense.

This is inexcusable. To address this situation, I introduced H.R. 4481, the Veterans' Affairs Employee Accountability (VAEA) Act.

H.R. 4481, the Veterans Affairs Employee Accountability Act was introduced by Congressman Roe of Tennessee.