Jay Rockefeller

It is important to be fair, and it is important to see the bad and the good.

This piece of law is working, and it is on the way.

I will not take time now to detail how much time and money the opponents of the MLR law spent trying to kill it.

I think it is unconscionable.

The commercial health insurance market worked before we passed the ACA.

If these reports are true, then appropriate action must be taken.

I am deeply troubled by the increasing reports of employee misconduct in VA facilities around the country.

Amidst stories of alleged secret waiting lists and falsified records, however, I do believe that it is important for everyone to remember one key fact: the VA treats millions of veterans every year, and it treats them exceptionally well.

In a Senate so full of toxicity and partisanship, I think your sort of attitude, your listening, your energy, your knowledge, your ability to defer properly things which you have not yet done because you are still in another job but are…

You have been Director of OMB, which I think one could also say is one of the most difficult positions around.

You are about fighting for people whom other people will not fight for.

I have respect for your intelligence, for your integrity, what I would call a ferocious integrity.

Director Burwell, there is an understandable rage for lowering costs.

I think you can gather from my statement that I am probably going to vote for you.

the only thing Americans will settle for is that somebody is fired, because that shows that 'the administration really means it.'

I would ask you to work with us on, I guess, two aspects of this: working for comprehensive reform of child welfare, number one, and also, as we do that, to help all children in that system.

I rise today to introduce the Mother's Day Commemorative Coin Act. I am proud to be joined by Senator Manchin in this important effort. Mother's Day is a special event for all West Virginians because this annual tribute to mothers began in…

today I am introducing two bills, S. 2287 and S. 2288, to help advance commercial deployment of clean coal technologies. The Carbon Capture and Sequestration Deployment Act of 2014 and the Expanding Carbon Capture through Enhanced Oil…

I just have to respond, Mr. Edwards, to this idea of, not privatizing the FAA but, you know, getting in outside groups.

That kind of mentality scares me terribly about the future of our country.

somebody getting elected or re-elected is less important than the country surviving in a structural sense.

I think I read that the American Academy of Civil Engineers said that it is going to take $2.3 trillion over the next couple of decades to bring us, in terms of general infrastructure--that is not just roads and bridges, but the general…

They are growing so fast in passenger use: 700 million people went on airplanes this year; 1 billion Americans will do so in 5 to 8 years.

this kind of thing. And it is an American characteristic that you do not do anything which displeases the voters because you always have to get re-elected here.

There is nothing sadder to me than a Republican or a Democrat who does not dare do something or vote for something that he or she believes in.