Shelley Moore Capito

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:28 p.m., adjourned until Monday, September 19, 2016, at 3 p.m…

Let us put them on an even tax credit playing field so that fair is fair.

And that is the Clean Power Plan?

I would hate to say, but the Pennsylvania tax credit that they have was a pretty big carrot for them.

That is an interesting technology, too, on the renewable side with the battery storage.

Is the reason that we are not building them here--is it the expense, the regulatory environment, the fear of the unknown, or a little bit of each?

We are not building another plant like Longview in this country at this time, correct?

In that case time is money if you have a permit application and you do not get permitted for five years, it exponentially increases the cost.

I think there are some people that think if you keep it in the ground, you can just bring it up as rapidly as you may need it.

I want to be very supportive of that. I put that amendment into the energy bill to be supportive of this project because I think it could bear real fruit for the State of West Virginia.

We are now at a point, I think, where the United States is becoming one of the most dominant players in energy production in the world.

Senator Manchin and I are really pleased to be talking about something that we have much agreement on, probably all agreement on, and it is extremely important to our state.

Veterans using the Choice card could go to a physician that is not in the health information exchange and therefore, their records are not interoperable with you?

In my final 2 minutes, let me ask you, Dr. Thompson, because you mentioned private sources, so we have just created the Choice card, we now have our veterans going out to private providers because of the issue of getting an appointment…

I am a bit confused because Secretary Council said that on April 8, you were certified interoperable.

In my view, that is an acknowledgment from EPA that just extending the deadlines is not necessarily an advocacy for dirtier air or having a higher ozone standard.

Moreover, EPA drastically missed its implementation deadlines and failed to designate non-attainment areas under the 2008 standard until May 2012.

One of these bills is my Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2016, which is co-sponsored by Senator Flake from Arizona and Senator Manchin from West Virginia.

I certainly want to look for common sense solutions, ways to maybe massage the issue to make it so that some of the concerns that we have heard voiced today would be addressed.

Delay increases costs. The costs to California obviously are going to be very good.

Come and visit the State of West Virginia. No joblessness? We have lost over 20,000 jobs in the coal mining industry.

We have suffered irreparable harm, and I keep repeating it in this committee meeting.

I just wanted to kind of jump in on the IT issue.

The eventual winner in any future conflict will be the side whose people adapt best to chaos.

This isn't something to cheer about. This is a human tragedy that I am living in my State of West Virginia.