David McKinley: “The decline in the fossil fuel industry across this country. We are taking those wages away, and we are going to replace…”

With all due respect, Chairman Rush--and we have been friends for years--this hearing seems to be taking on an air of distraction from what Americans are really dealing with across this country.

I don't understand what is happening under this Administration.

Unfortunately, instead of promoting innovation and supporting the chemical industry, as the Act intended, it seems like EPA is stifling innovation and creating barriers to commerce for new and existing materials.

If I could recover my--that--we are not hearing the same. They are not--the people that I am talking to throughout West Virginia and places are not concurring with that, that there are delays in--and they are very concerned about the…