I think the better the system gets and more reliable, the less frequently it needs to be tested.

New England does not seem to have the appetite to permit the pipeline.

We have a natural resource in my home state and region we would love to be selling our natural gas in this country.

I think one thing that was a great thing that we did in the last WRDA bill, I think it was the WRDA bill, when the revenue from diesel fuel went up and Congress increased that tax from 20 cents a gallon to 29 cents a gallon.

I can count on one hand how many people have come in my office and said we will help pay for this.

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They are struggling because the economic model here in this country to deploy the cutting edge emission and dual fuel capacity and regulatory pressures has made it difficult for them.

Well, we should be able to do that.

Absolutely have to do that.

And I want to thank my colleague Senator Baldwin for working on this issue with the Simcakoski family.

Thank you to Senator Capito and Senator Baldwin for requesting this hearing, and to the Chairman for holding it.

But it does show you that if you begin to monitor and if you begin to keep track and you have accurate records and you shine a light on this, you can improve the situation and you can make a difference.

I am also a co-sponsor of the clean coal bipartisan effort to move forward with the technologies, bring value to that, and spur that along through a 45Q tax credit.

Sometimes we use the VA as a good example of, 'Well, let's do this in the general public,' and sometimes we use the general public to say, 'Let's try this at the VA.'

We can move toward emission free on the automobile side, but we have to keep moving forward on the coal side, because coal is going to be needed to power those electric cars.

You can't build that in the United States right now in this environment, because of the expense and because of the difficulties and the headwinds that coal faces.