Political Quotes

“Yes. Thank you for yielding. I would say tens and really hundreds of thousands of jobs are on the line with these coal policies that prevent people from having good- paying jobs and feeding their families. And both parties can agree--it is a bipartisan proposal--the best way to help the poor or to help anybody not get on government assistance is to get a good-paying job, and that is what we are trying to provide here, good-paying jobs, the dignity that you mentioned, Congressman, in your earlier remarks about the dignity of having a good-paying job. Folks in my State and, I am sure, others, want those good-paying jobs because they want that dignity. They want to work. They don't want to have to be relying on government programs. So the assault on the coal industry and the energy industry in general is something that is particularly harmful to our State. And anyone listening across this country, I would be careful, because if they can discriminate against one form of energy, which is coal, what is next? There is an agenda here that exists to discriminate against various types of energy production. Look, we just want to be fair. We want an all-of-the-above energy policy. We want these jobs here at home that are going to happen anyway because they are doing it in other countries, so we want these jobs here at home. They are good-paying jobs.”