Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill.

It also noted that according to the house ethics manual “Official stationery. Rahall's policies involving mountaintop removal mining have been criticized with the link between mountaintop removal mining and flooding as well as the billions of pounds of explosives used since 2004 being used as examples.

S. Representative for West Virginia's 3rd congressional district since 1977. Rahall is currently the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and is the Dean of the West Virginia Congressional delegation.