Political Quotes

“today I rise on behalf of West Virginian workers, families, communities, and all hardworking Americans who will bear the burden of these onerous carbon mandates. The bipartisan resolution of disapproval, which I have introduced with my colleague Senator Heidi Heitkamp from North Dakota and 47 other cosponsors, will block EPA's greenhouse gas regulation targeting existing power sources. I also strongly support Leader McConnell's companion resolution to block the regulations targeting new power limits. As I was thinking about the speech today and as I rise to give this speech, I realize I have said many of these same words so many times before. I have expressed the same frustrations and spouted off similar statistics. What is the difference this time? The difference is we have already seen the devastating effects and the callous nature of regulatory overreach. We know what the new reality would be. The new reality would be what we are facing with these new carbon regulations: the reality of the families, the faces, and the hardships that we have already endured; the thousands of layoffs in my State of West Virginia that have already been issued; the jobs that have been lost and will never come back. Just this morning, nearly 200 West Virginia coal miners in Randolph County were informed that their jobs will be gone by Christmas. Think about how those families will spend their Christmas holiday.…”