09/25/2011
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"the President's budget would mean that millions of workers, including dislocated coalminers and veterans, could lose access to these critical services next year."
"The average coalminer, or most of them, are widows who are receiving these pensions, only $595 a month."
"The other thing we have is the Dislocated Worker Grants to help fight the opioid epidemic, and you know it is just a horrible tragedy on our country."
"Since the beginning of 2017, 19 miners have died in America, coalminers. Ten of them have been in my State and Senator Capito's State of West Virginia."