"the fact that one of the biggest reasons I am hearing is because of a lack of resources, often small changes that could be being made that we are not investing."
"Until this deadly accident, you were able to do it before you put it back in service. It could have been done before and prevented the accident."
"the question in Congress has not been whether to extend the deadline, but rather how to extend the deadline."
"It looks like you all, for the sake of budget constraints, bottom line, profit margins, return on investments--is making decisions that basically should never have been made."
"The most inexpensive way, situational awareness, is a visual screen that everybody pretty much has on their automobile today."
"Could you report back to this committee... what evaluations you have on immediate safety procedures you could put in with technology or anything that is available?"
"I am living in the real world right now, and West Virginia is getting absolutely plummeted by the overreach of this Administration."
"I think we have had some good discussion on cyber security today."
"This is not Democratic. I am a Democrat and this is a Democratic Administration. This is not Democrat and Republican. It is just common sense."
"Secretary Moniz has offered to come to West Virginia, and he will be the first official in that type of environmental realm."
"This Government has not stepped forward, this Administration, and said oh, wait a minute, I cannot replace 34, 35, 36 percent of the energy that coal produces, right?"