I am just trying to understand the effect, what the likelihood of increased cost is going to be under Order 1000 to the residents of West Virginia.

Coal is the backbone of West Virginia, and it is crucial, but it wasn't until I came to Congress... that I realized how much there was this attack on coal.

There have been announcements of three to five plants in West Virginia that are going to shut down because of these regulations.

But you said they killed people.

If it comes down to health issues, saving a person's health of saving a person's job, what would you recommend specifically?

But right now we have 9.1 percent unemployment. We just got announced last month that there were no job increases whatsoever across America.

They have gone to--they are talking to the banks. First they are saying we meet some standards now, we are not polluting under the old standard, we are meeting some standards, we are meeting Clean Air Act, we are meeting the EPA standards, we are meeting those standards, and for someone to tighten the bolt right now in this economy is threatening them because there is already one other major manufacturer in West Virginia lumber that went out of business due to this economy.

You said you are expecting job growth if the EPA standards were put into effect.

What are we talking about? Construction jobs that last for 6 months but then put the 600 people out of work in my district? That doesn't work.

We also need to look at ways to spur innovation in the public safety device market.

Our discussion draft reallocates the D-block to public safety and includes a carefully developed, effective and efficient national governance mechanism with sufficient oversight and accountability.