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David McKinley

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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.

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Jun 13, 2016

They emphasized kind of some global organizing, collaborative or campaign. How could we go about such an effort?

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Jun 13, 2016

Should we be spending more of our monies overseas to try to work those problems out over there?

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Jun 13, 2016

We know that antibiotics are becoming less effective in treating bacterial infections, because bacteria are evolving to become resistant.

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Jun 13, 2016

Fortunately, Congress and Federal agencies are taking action, and they did not wait until this MCR-1 gene showed up.

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Jun 13, 2016

I am troubled about other areas, emerging nations.

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Jun 13, 2016

This fight is a global fight, not a United States.

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Jun 13, 2016

We know that doctors and patients alike are partially to blame for the over-use of antibiotics.

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Jun 13, 2016

A third of the antibiotics are overprescribed by doctors.

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Jun 9, 2016

If you look at Mississippi my colleague from Harper from Mississippi, their median family income $36,000 a year.

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Jun 9, 2016

I want to play back on what my colleague and good friend Bobby Rush from Illinois was talking about, was the disparity of income when people were facing this.

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Jun 9, 2016

So what would you suggest that we in Congress could do to maybe ameliorate some of these differences a little bit so that the poorer communities or States that have trouble, how can they afford to have this cost?

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Jun 9, 2016

I am troubled with that, because of the diversity of income, their capability of doing it, and don't tell me it is going to save my $500 a year, because we understand the pay back is so much longer on all of these.

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May 23, 2016

Why is there such a disparity between two regions separated by merely a thousand feet?

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May 23, 2016

I don't want to do it for everyone, as that penalizes everyone.

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May 23, 2016

This is something we hear from providers time and time again.

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Apr 20, 2016

Would a regional approach be helpful for small towns to get together so that they may be collectively come up to 3,000 or 4,000 people?

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Apr 20, 2016

I think we have to understand, there are a lot of small towns.

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Apr 18, 2016

If a company like yours, as sophisticated as it is and with the securities you have, it can lose control of encryption keys, how could we have confidence in others?

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Apr 18, 2016

I have been hearing everyone talk about it, and they are not getting anything done.

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Apr 18, 2016

I certainly believe that utilities are exposed.

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Apr 18, 2016

I am very concerned about national security as it relates to encryption.

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Apr 14, 2016

We can't afford to have that as you well know.

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Apr 14, 2016

I am asking, please, they have reached up this far up.

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Apr 14, 2016

Whether or not they can make this payment or not.

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Apr 13, 2016

I guess it is fundamentally goes to that--just because Government can change or modify a regulation doesn't mean that it should.

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