Political Quotes

“first of all, I want to thank my colleagues, Senator McConnell, Senator Capito, who is my colleague from the State of West Virginia, Senator Daines, Senator Inhofe, and my good friend Senator Heitkamp. This is a bipartisan approach. Not often do we see a bipartisan effort, a bipartisan colloquy on the floor of the Senate anymore, and there should be because we all have the same interests. Basically, how do we provide affordable, dependable, and reliable energy? That is what this country was built on. We have defended this country by having resources that we could use to basically defend ourselves, and that resource has come from what the Good Lord gave us. Coal has been in abundance in the United States of America. We have fought every war, we have defended, we have energized, and we have built a middle class unlike at any time in the history of this world. So now it comes to the point where there is a group--basically the ones on an ideological pathway--who says we can do it differently. If someone came to me and said: We have this new great energy, and I am sorry, West Virginia and North Dakota and Oklahoma and Montana, we have this new energy--and maybe it is commercial hydrogen, which will be water vapor--that is wonderful. We will figure a way. We will embrace that. We will figure a way to make it. We will do something. We will diversify. That is not the case.…”