Nick Rahall: “I do want to commend, as well, the chairman of our Education and Labor Committee, Mr. George Miller, within whose…”

“I do want to commend, as well, the chairman of our Education and Labor Committee, Mr. George Miller, within whose jurisdiction the Mine Safety Health Administration resides. Mr. Miller is certainly a true champion of our coal miners and one who has coal mine health and safety deep in his bones. He will be traveling to our district in southern West Virginia on Monday to have a hearing to listen to family members or those who lost loved ones at UBB in that horrific tragedy on April 5. I also wish to commend the House of Representatives in a bipartisan fashion for the very swift action in which the House passed a resolution after this tragedy commending those 29 fallen miners and expressing condolences to their families. We continue to work with the family members to help them through what is a difficult process known as healing and trying to get by in life now without their loved ones.”