before I start my formal remarks, I would like to make a few comments about what has occurred in terms of the cloture vote and in terms of some of the discussion that we have had most recently. I wanted to react, first of all, to something…

As we all know, on Monday, President Obama and his Environmental Protection Agency announced their final clean power grab.

States should not have to begin implementing these costly and burdensome plans until an unappealable judicial decision has been reached.

yesterday President Obama and his Environmental Protection Agency announced their final clean power grab, continuing the economic assault on energy-producing States like West Virginia. Yesterday, Alpha Natural Resources, one of the…

States should not be required to implement a State or Federal plan that the State's Governor determines would negatively impact economic growth.

The President talks about CCS and uses an example of CCS that is not economical or technologically feasible.

I encourage Governors of each State to analyze the impacts of those clean energy jobs and other jobs that are created and sustained by the coal or natural gas industry.

To think we would not want to have policies that move forward to keep our children healthy is a smokescreen of some sort.

Actually, in my bill in Section 4(b), I am asking for reporting, specific reporting...

I think the passion I have on my side of this issue is just as heartfelt, sincere and driven by the people I represent every day.

In my view, this is why we need the ARENA Act now more than ever.

today I would like to recognize the outstanding career of COL Leon Parrott, District Commander of the Huntington District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Since the beginning of his tenure, Colonel Parrott has dutifully served our great…

I rise today to express my deep concerns with the nuclear agreement negotiated between the United States and other world powers and Iran. In May, Congress acted in a bipartisan way to enact the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act. The Senate…

I rise in strong support of the DRIVE Act. I commend Chairman Inhofe and Ranking Member Boxer for their bipartisan work on this bill that passed out of the Environment and Public Works Committee with a unanimous vote. A long-term highway…

I rise to express my strong support for the Every Child Achieves Act that is pending before the Senate. I want to commend Chairman Alexander and Ranking Member Murray for working in such a great bipartisan fashion that brought this bill to…

I come here before you today, joined by my colleague Senator Baldwin from Wisconsin--but also by colleagues from both sides of the aisle, as she mentioned--in support of legislation to provide safer and more effective pain management to…

Part of the ARENA Act says we should not move forward with these regulations until all the legal aspects are settled.

I look forward to hearing in greater detail from our witnesses about the impact of these proposed regulations and the need for clean air policies that do not overburden our States and cripple our economy.

We are going to see rate increases that I believe will be substantial.

Wouldn't it be advisable as a matter of public policy before implementation of the most expensive rule ever imposed on the electric utility sector, $9.5 billion a year, to know up front whether the rule is legal?

Put simply, there is no way that this massive, largely EPA-driven reduction in coal-fired electricity generation is going to impact only coal States.

Affordable energy matters.

The largest impediment we have to operating our business successfully is our own government, particularly the EPA.

I would imagine that the intent of siting one of these lagoons is not to leach arsenic into drinking water.

I rise to speak about our Nation's energy economy. ``Alpha Natural to Lay Off 439 at West Virginia Coal Mine''; ``Murray Energy expects more than 1,800 coal mine layoffs''; ``Job Cuts Are Devastating Blow for Ohio Valley Coal Miners''…