Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY): “We need to quit doing what we've been doing. It's obvious that the stimulus, borrowing all that money and spending it basically on government employees, didn't do any good. If you talk to business people, and Bill Daley, the president's chief of staff, did recently, you find out their biggest complaint is over-regulation. The federal government with that stimulus money hired a quarter of a million new employees. These people are busily at work trying to regulate every aspect of American life -- in health care, financial services, through the Environmental Protection Agency -- really sort of bureaucrats on steroids that are freezing up the private sector and making it very difficult, Bob, for them to grow and expand. You know, you've seen the reports that they've got $2 trillion in cash. The reason they're not investing that in hiring more people is the government has made it very expensive to expand employment.”

WHITESVILLE, W.Va. -- The new owner of the southern West Virginia mine where 29 men died in an explosion last year is donating $250,000 toward construction of a memorial.

McKinley made a special presentation in Ohio County on West Virginia's 148th birthday.

WHEELING -- Monday, if there was a cake for the State of West Virginia, it would include 148 birthday candles.

U.S. Rep. David Mc Kinley, R-Ohio, was in Wheeling to celebrate. McKinley was at Oglebay Resort Monday morning discussing his current efforts to slow down the environmental protection agency. The congressman said coal, energy, and security must be maintained but so should good paying mountain state jobs.

BECKLEY -- The Friends of Coal Ladies Auxiliary “Giving Hearts” program consists of numerous projects, one of them being our deployed troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.

In 2009, the Friends of Coal Ladies Auxiliary contacted the Golden Knights concerning our deployed military. At that time, they were supplied with a “wish list” from outposts in Afghanistanand Iraq. In that year, they provided such items as a flat-screen television, DVDs, magazines, canned fruit, mixed nuts, candy, foot powder, anti-bacterial wipes, vapor rub and eye drops. These items were sent to 500 deployed troops.

ACTION ALERT:  CONTACT YOUR SENATORS TODAY!  ASK THEM TO SUPPORT HR 2018!

THIS BILL WILL HELP REIN IN THE EPA AND GET AMERICA BACK TO WORK!

The Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act (H.R. 2018) has major implications for the Friends of Coal and the 63,000 West Virginia families whose livelihoods depend on mining coal.