Nick Rahall

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

In recent weeks, the House of Representatives has taken up three major bills designed to address concerns about executive agency overreach in regulatory proposals. I supported the first two bills--H.R. 3010, the Regulatory Accountability…

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.

I thank the subcommittee ranking member, the gentleman from Washington, for yielding me the time. In recognition of the tradition of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure to annually move bills to reauthorize the Coast Guard…

I am glad that the Subcommittee has chosen to get to the heart of the matter and conduct a hearing in West Virginia, where Members can hear first-hand about the negative effects a revised stream buffer zone rule would have on our coal…

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…

In my view, wise investments in ensuring the efficiency and reliability of our inland system can only benefit the bottom line of many American families.

Over the past year, I have often expressed concern about the impacts of the proposed cuts to vital transportation and infrastructure spending programs advocated by the Republican leadership.

The jobs created by such investment are not Republican jobs or Democratic jobs. They are American jobs, and benefit the Nation as a whole.

America has voted. The Nation voted for a winning combination of humility, hard work, a lifelong dream, and finely tuned talent. Today, I join with my friends and colleagues from Logan County, West Virginia, in congratulating Landau Eugene…

May I have a time check, please, Mr. Speaker. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from West Virginia has 9 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Florida has 1\1/4\ minutes remaining.

On rollcall No. 699, had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.''

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Chair, as someone who has the privilege of representing an ``American-made energy'' producing State, I understand the economic benefits of producing energy here at home, and I believe my…

I appreciate the gentleman's remarks and his anger. It is, indeed, frustrating. I, again, invite him to fast-track without consideration of process, as he has done on this pipeline bill, in order to free us from reliance upon foreign…

If the gentleman would continue to yield, the incident did not occur until after the markup of this bill, by the way.

In response to the gentleman's question asked a few seconds ago, it was a closed rule. There was no way we could have brought this up in the amendment process. The gentleman's party controls the rules of this body and controls the…

I commend our ranking member, Mr. Costello, Chairman Mica, Subcommittee Chairman Petri, my senior Senator, Jay Rockefeller, in the other body and his ranking member, Kay Bailey Hutchison, for the tremendous efforts they have put in this…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 243, noes 177, not voting 12, as follows: [Roll No. 611] AYES--243…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on the question of passage. The vote…

In June, the American public learned that a major U.S. airline greeted a group of Army soldiers who were returning home from the front lines in Afghanistan with a bill for almost $3,000, or $200 apiece for each soldier to check four bags…

I have a motion at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentleman opposed to the bill?

I thank the gentleman from New York for yielding. I rise in support of the gentlelady from West Virginia's amendment; let me state that at the very beginning. My only concerns here were attaching an economic analysis amendment to the…

This is about the process, as I described in my opening comments, not the policy. This bill is not about whether the Members of this body support clean, safe water. We all support clean, safe water. I do not know a single Member in this…

I am honored to yield 1 minute to another distinguished member of our T&I Committee, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Altmire).