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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

I would like to begin my statement first of all by congratulating Carla Hayden, who was just confirmed as the 14th Librarian of Congress. I know she will do a good job. I am very proud of her and I look forward to working with her and the…

I ask unanimous consent that notwithstanding rule XXII, the only remaining postcloture time be the following: Capito-Baldwin, 15 minutes; Carper, 10 minutes; Markey, 10 minutes; further, that following the use or yielding back of that…

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.

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?

Thank you, Mr. President, for recognizing me, and I want to thank the chairman of the HELP Committee, the Senator from Tennessee, who has in the Senate made a very passionate argument on why we should be passing the bill that contains the…

on June 29, 2016, the Senate Appropriations Committee marked up S. 3117, the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriation Act, 2017. During the mark-up, the Senator from Oregon offered an amendment to strike…

I rise today to emphasize the importance of the MILCON-VA and Zika conference bill. As a member of the conference committee that crafted this report and a member of the subcommittee that drafted the Military Construction and Veterans…

I want to thank Senator Manchin, certainly for putting this colloquy together. I want to thank Senator Portman of Ohio, Senator Donnelly of Indiana, and Senator Brown of Ohio. We are deeply affected by this, and the facts bear out that we…

wow, I come to the floor of the Senate to talk about a real emergency that just occurred in my State of West Virginia. I know many of you across the country have witnessed and seen the terrible destruction from the sudden flash flood that…

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.

today I wish to recognize and commend the outstanding career of Dr. Beverly ``Jo'' Harris, one of the State of West Virginia's most respected educators, on the occasion of her retirement. During her tenure as the first president of…

I rise today to express the urgent need to take up and pass a piece of legislation which has great meaning for me and my fellow West Virginians and which is important to our Nation's coal-mining community, and that is the Miners Protection…

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

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.

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