"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 timely, distance, all the things we know exist, and this has bee..."
"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."
"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."
"Delay increases costs. The costs to California obviously are going to be very good."
"We have suffered irreparable harm, and I keep repeating it in this committee meeting."
"Come and visit the State of West Virginia. No joblessness? We have lost over 20,000 jobs in the coal mining industry."
"the eventual winner in any future conflict will be the side whose people adapt best to chaos."
"I just wanted to kind of jump in on the IT issue."
"This isn't something to cheer about. This is a human tragedy that I am living in my State of West Virginia."