Shelley Moore Capito

This is a multibillion dollar issue, as there are severe constraints on economic development in areas designated as in 'nonattainment.'

The bills before us today are meant to end the regulatory uncertainty and its impacts on the livelihood of Americans.

In reference to the bills, in my opinion, it does not undermine the Clean Air Act; it does not throw out the 2008 or 2015 standards or otherwise erode those existing protections.

The EPA has repeatedly failed to comply with the existing 5-year schedule and, as the standards have gradually tightened, compliance has become costlier and more complicated.

There is nothing like seeing the faces of our miners as we did in our offices the other day and I have seen in my office throughout this time--or when it was at the 100-degree rally out on the lawn last fall--to realize the human faces…

I wholly share Senator Manchin's understanding of this key provision of the legislation. By adopting the language from the Miners Protection Act that is included in the Omnibus appropriations bill, we intended to cover any miners…

I certainly appreciate the kind comments from my friend and fellow Senator from West Virginia, Mr. Manchin, who has been a champion of this issue. It has been a pleasure to work together and to have it all work out. We have worked closely…

Many of our veterans, we have some great hospitals in West Virginia in Huntington, Beckley, Clarksburg and Martinsburg.

I am going to be introducing a bill called the Gigabit Opportunity Act.

The unserved communities ought to be the focus certainly of any actual Federal spending.

I want to take an opportunity to thank him, Governor Justice, for signing it and the legislatures that put it into effect.

This would all of the stakeholders to coordinate--this has been going on for years, years, and it has been stonewalled, and we are back at it again. But it would cut construction costs for the State to the tune of about $110 million.

Yes, Senator. We do. We explicitly talk about retaliation as being totally unacceptable conduct.

Senator, I think on restricted reports it is.

I would like to add my voice to the many that you have heard in the past and today who have deep concerns, obviously, about the actions and the accusations of sexual harassment at the academy.

I believe that a retrained coal miner can really move into the aerospace industry quite seamlessly.

I agree with Senator Baldwin. This has been an excellent hearing.

We need to increase that, because that's where I think the viability and the ability to raise your families is.

Well, one good thing about that particular site, too, is there are some contractors in and around that site where it has been cleaned, so that there is some economic activity in the local area; it is not just sitting there without any kind…

I want to thank the Huntington Corps for that.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

We want to make sure that with this Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act that we move forward to streamlining the approval to incenting new innovative technologies.

We have made it stronger and I think more viable as we move to hopefully moving this legislation to the floor in the 115th Congress.

What a wonderful tool for emergency services to have in their toolbox to be able to meet these challenges within hours.

This committee stepped up last year by providing $19 million in last year's Omnibus Bill to help displaced coal workers with job training and development.