A bipartisan process matters. We all benefit from hearing and debating each other's ideas.
David McKinley
The Public Record
David Bennett McKinley is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, serving West Virginia's 1st congressional district from January 5, 2011, until January 3, 2023. A member of the Republican Party, McKinley focused on issues such as energy policy, infrastructure development, and healthcare during his time in office. He was known for advocating for the coal industry and promoting economic growth in West Virginia. McKinley also served on various committees, including the House Energy and Commerce Committee, where he played a role in shaping legislation related to energy and health care.
I share their frustration and remain committed to working with the chairman to address these calls with action from Congress.
I introduced the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act to turn the tide in the fight against robocalls.
I don't want to go there, because as an engineer I believe very much in research and to do that, but if we are driving the price up--innovation is supposed to drive the price down, not up.
I am saying if--were prior to having the innovation that prices were lower, now they are skyrocketing up to 237.
If just the CPI went up $17, but yet your NovoLog is now with a list price of 237, not $17.
So many times, when we have our meetings back in the district in our roundtable discussions they talk about how people in West Virginia, probably no different than around the country, having three and four hundred dollars a month.
I am troubled with that and I am hoping that you will look at that dealing with the RINs.
Because my issue, every time I go to a county commissioner or whatever, they are asking for more money.
The compliance in West Virginia is out of Philadelphia, can be entirely different a thousand feet across the river in Ohio.
Legislation like the Green New Deal is a one-size-fits-all approach that poses an imminent threat to the economy of my state, jobs of my constituents, and the heartbeat of West Virginia.
I hope there is going to be more emphasis on the global involvement and how we get that done.
I want to go to Camp, because there is a concern I have had, and many of us are watching many of our political figures hiding behind climate change as an excuse to push an ideology.
If the rest of the world doesn't do something about its emissions, particularly in China and India, we are still going to have droughts, wildfires, severe weather alerts.
I heard your testimony when you were here in committee. I know where your position is anticoal and I respect that.
States cannot solve this problem, a magnitude of this, on their own, and I can't agree with you more.
Make no mistake, we are seeing a clear pattern--the systematic failure of our Environmental Protection Agency to protect workers under TSCA and other EPA programs against the spirit and letter of the Lautenberg Act and the fundamental…





