There is an image that people work in the mines because they can't work anywhere else. It's just not true.

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What's Jerry Kilgore doing? Standing on the stage with somebody who wants to take your Social Security.

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We built the middle class down here and we're not prepared to give it up.

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But Senator Byrd doesn't just stand up for coal miners and our families, ... He stands up for every working family in West Virginia and always has in his years as a United States senator.

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And quite frankly, if we look at the makeup of the House and the Senate and the White House, if we don't have bipartisan help, it's almost impossible to see any program that benefits workers.

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This legislation will give miners a fighting chance to survive situations like what happened at Sago.

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Going under your house and taking the support beams out.

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When people get mad, they're more likely to do something. When I go back to Congress ... what's happened at Sago and what's happened here, there's got to be a lot of mad people.

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