"It's going to be an enormous challenge to see what follows on that."
"on behalf of myself and Senator Rockefeller, we want to thank you for the courtesy you've extended to us."
"Who has primacy? If I have State law, and I've got our inspectors--and we're going out there because we live there."
"I think we're going to have to look at."
"Do you believe that it's time to have truly one agency doing training and one agency doing inspections?"
"What has happened over the--and I think that Senator Enzi will say the same, because coming from a large mining State, is the confusion."
"Let me make it very clear, I do not, under any circumstances, think that we should eliminate it."
"Has MSHA ever considered basically taking the lead role on, basically, teaching the safety end of it?"
"The only thing I would ask for, if you would, give me a breakdown of how you're coordinating."
"What I hear a lot from both the miners themselves and operators is that there are two inspections going on; and one might contradict the other; and they get very confused."
"The coal miners in West Virginia... they're the salt of the earth; they're hard workers; they're patriotic people; they provide for their families."