[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 3083]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             COAL FAMILIES

  Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, on one final matter, when President 
Obama was a candidate, he boasted that his energy tax policies would 
make electricity prices skyrocket for American families. When President 
Obama took office, his administration declared a war on coal families 
and on their jobs. For a time, his administration tried to deny it was 
declaring war on anyone, but now we hear boasting from the highest 
ranks of the Democratic Party that these policies are going to put coal 
miners out of business.
  Miners in Kentucky and across the country know that coal keeps the 
lights on and puts food on the table. What they want is to provide for 
their families. But here is how more Democrats seem to view these hard-
working Americans and their families: just statistics, just the cost of 
doing business, just obstacles to their ideology. This is callous, it 
is wrong, and it underlines the need to stand up for hard-working, 
middle-class coal families. That is what I have done here in the 
Senate. That is what I will continue to do. I hope our colleagues will 
join me.

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