David McKinley: “I will soon be introducing comprehensive legislation, the New Promise Act, to put impacted coal communities in the…”

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 think what you are doing by your memo is you are only going to make it worse.

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…

Come on, man. We can do better than this. Our communities in States like West Virginia and New Hampshire and Delaware are expecting something far better than that kind of response.