The President's announcement sounded less like a national energy plan than like a page from an election-year play book. This Administration's plan to reduce obscene oil company profits is to regulate them less.

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.