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Sen. Rockefeller “Status Quo is Unacceptable” (VIDEO)

January 21st, 2006 at 06:16 by MsUnderestimated

In West Virginia today, after Gov. Manchin spoke, Sen. Rockefeller and Congressman Rahall both gave very moving statements to the press. Both promised tougher standards and safety measures for coal miners everywhere, and from the emotion in their voices, I could feel the fire in their bellies over this tragedy.

Sen. Rockefeller: When people get mad, they’re more likely to do something, and when I go back to Congress on Tuesday to meet with the Governor, what’s happened at Sago and what’s happened here… there’s gonna be a lot of mad people. These are human beings and when you see them go through what they go through, you’re never the same. You have helped America understand that. And I think you’re going to see change. We have to. Coal mining has to be done, it needs to be done, it’s in America’s interest that it be done, and it has to be done safely and responsibly, and it shall be.

Congressman Rahall is also a man of conviction. His emotions are obvious as are Rockefeller’s, and he speaks the painful truth.

Congressman Rahall: It is unfortunate that every coal mine health and safety law on the books today is written with the blood of coal miners. It takes a tragedy, unfortunately, to toughen these laws and pass them in the first place. But if that’s what we have to do, then so be it.

God bless both of these men, this community, and help them achieve their goals for coal miners everywhere.

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