I am very proud that I supported the nomination of Christopher Williamson to be the Assistant Secretary for the Mine Safety and Health Administration.

as ranking member of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, I rise to oppose the nomination of Dr. Chris Frey due to the consistent lack of responsiveness from the EPA on our critical oversight matters. The Republican leader…

I look forward to our visit together, to West Virginia in June.

On the Justice40 issue, I have tried to, like, dig deep into that to see--it is pledged that 40 percent of the funding that is going, is going to go to justice communities.

I think, you know, as we pass the IIJA, we obviously, the longer the delay, the less the money, the supply chain is going up; inflation is going up. Everything is going to cost more.

This hearing is particularly important as the committee continues to oversee the implementation of the IIJA.

I think we all see what is happening in Europe, we know that the reliance on our own natural--our own energy resources, in an all-of-the-above energy plan, and we are feeling--I think most of us in energy states feeling as though that is…

If we are talking about delays and bureaucracies and shortages of resources that you have sited, it seems to me that if you are dealing with the same species in relatively the same type of habitat, that mirroring this just makes total…

What kind of inconsistencies are you finding across the Country, and it is very frustrating, especially being from neighboring States and like habitats?

I just want to ask for your pledge again, that folks in the energy industry have an ability to come, knock on your door, and actually have their side of the story heard.

If implemented as Congress intended, the IIJA will facilitate the construction of much-needed energy, industrial, and transportation projects across the Country.

The Service must play a key role in ensuring those projects are built in a timely manner.

I am pleased to be the lead sponsor along with Senator Reed of the Childhood Cancer STAR Act.

I am especially concerned about this disease because we have a lot of coal miners in West Virginia.

Last Friday, I spoke with a mother who had recently lost her daughter to fentanyl laced methamphetamine.

I know better what is good for you than what you know is good for yourself.

I think that a broader view of what is going to bring people out of poverty needs to be taken here by the Administration.

You can't exclude communities who have been treated poorly, and that we want to have them treated like the Golden Rule.

this motion to instruct emphasizes that climate change cannot be used as a basis for the President to declare an emergency or a major disaster or any other means to expand executive powers. In the last 2 weeks, Progressives in Congress…

I call up my motion to instruct conferees, which is at the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the motion. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from West Virginia [Mrs. Capito] moves that the managers on the…

Are more people remote working than there were before COVID?

The name in and of itself has, I think, implications to all of us. I heard all about this all over the weekend of concern of sort of an Orwellian, you know, policing of speech.

my state has the highest percentage per capita of deaths by overdose from opioids, very, very sad situation, and it is coming from the southern border.

Frankly, I don't know why we would spend billions of dollars protecting the homeland without the capacity to protect our citizens from foreign actors and terrorist organizations.

I think it's more of a case of reconfiguring how the data is presented so we can't have an accurate view.