I have learned here in my first year that there is a real credibility gap.

Please understand, where I am coming from is a coal-fired State. We create coal, we mine coal in West Virginia.

So when the EPA goes after the coal industry, you are attacking the very fabric--much like your Navajo Nation.

technology has really moved, so if it worked back 30, 40 years ago, I don't understand, unless there is another agenda here--and that is a little bit more sinister--about why we are not allowing this to progress and putting our people back to work.

Then they went ahead and they built it--800 miles long, 48 inches in diameter, across 3 mountain chains, 30 rivers. It seemed to have worked.

I have heard all the scare tactics from the friends on the other side that this is a very corrosive, difficult product to handle, but I think engineers over the years have developed ways of handling that.

I just hope there's somehow that you all in West--in the legislature can come up with something to attract that back because there are so many secondary jobs can come from that if you will provide them the incentives to do it.

I think we all have a responsibility to create jobs here in the private sector, not in the government jobs, in the private sector.

Let's get that trained work force. We have the resources if we can get that bill out of the House.

Senator Manchin mentioned us as being the Saudi Arabia of natural gas in West Virginia.

If their cost goes up by having renewables because we are putting a line in for a wind farm and now I have to pay more, why is that not a subsidy?