Nick Rahall

I am very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Bishop) at this time, a valued member of our committee and the sponsor of H.R. 14, the other body's bipartisan transportation bill, which is twice as good as H.R. 7.

You would not yield to me. I will not yield to you. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to yield 3 minutes now to the gentleman from Missouri, a valued member of our committee, Mr. Carnahan.

I would remind the gentleman from Pennsylvania that the bill he is promoting, H.R. 7, means to his home State of Pennsylvania a cut of $948 million, and it destroys some 32,983 good-paying jobs. For fiscal year 2016, in the State of…

I am honored to yield 2 minutes to the distinguished ranking member on the House Education and the Workforce Committee, the gentleman from California (Mr. Miller).

I and the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. DeFazio) and the gentleman from New York (Mr. Bishop) have tried and tried and tried to bring that up and on the floor of the House. Yet we get turned down at every turn in the road. At every corner in…

I am honored to yield the customary 1 minute to our distinguished Democratic leader, the gentlelady from California (Ms. Pelosi).

I am happy to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Bishop), who has introduced the other body's bill in this House. It's labeled H.R. 14 and is twice as good as H.R. 7.

I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentlelady from Florida, the distinguished ranking member of our Subcommittee on Railroads.

We have to find the proper balance, in my opinion. We can have Clean Water. We can have safe drinking water for our children and our grandchildren. Yet, at the same time, we can have jobs.

There was a boss at UBB by the name of Dean Jones, who perished, that wanted to bring his crew out. Not once, but several times because they had no air. He was told if you do so, then bring your bucket and look for another job. This man…

Something is going to have to be changed that these people that are in charge of running these mines need to be accountable.

What happened at UBB is absolutely criminal and the Congress should do everything in its power to stop the protection.

I NEVER, EVER want to see another disaster like the one at Upper Big Branch.

The families of miners are sick of watching lower level employees take the fall for upper management.

This issue crosses all partisan lines, philosophical lines, class lines, every line in our society.

I urge you and this Subcommittee to consider and move forward on legislation that encompasses the provisions I have mentioned.

I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentlelady from Florida, Ms. Corrine Brown, who is our ranking member on the Railroads Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

I am very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Miller), our ranking member on the House Education and the Workforce Committee. He is a true friend and leader of the interests of all working men and women in this…

At this point I am very honored, in a nostalgic way, to recognize the gentleman from Illinois, the former chairman of our subcommittee on aviation, the current ranking member, who is taking his expertise--and hopefully not his…

While I support the conference agreement on the National Defense Authorization Act, I am extremely disappointed that it does not include language from previous years to prevent the Administration from moving forward with increases in…

We refer to the Bush tax cuts in our committee as the Bush-Obama tax cuts.

For the past 10 years I have served as ranking member and then chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee. And I watched you guys fight over water. Now I am coming over here to Transportation and Infrastructure, and you are fighting…

We must consider all the environmental effects of drilling from the rights and well being of surface owners to the subsurface consequences of drilling methods to the effect on water quality and quantity to air emissions.

I'm all for promoting Marcellus development as long as it means a better life for our children and grandchildren.

Without a doubt, the new stream buffer zone rule under consideration by the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement is unworkable; it would, unquestionably, adversely affect coal mining and eliminate mining jobs so important…