David McKinley: “Unfortunately, we've been here before--in 1999 a federal Judge halted mining at the Dal-Tex site where the Spruce permit…”

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.

But it appears to me the policies that have been put forth in the last ten months are doing diametrically opposite.

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…

So I want to make sure I understand this. Let me get this straight. The Biden administration's policy to combat this overdose epidemic is to shorten sentences for fentanyl traffickers? Seriously? This is your answer?