Jay Rockefeller
Jay Rockefeller
John Davison "Jay" Rockefeller IVserved as a United States Senator from West Virginia, from 1985 to 2015. He was first elected to the Senate in 1984, while in office as Governor of West Virginia, a position he held from 1977 to 1985. Rockefeller moved to Emmons, West Virginia to serve as a VISTA worker in 1964, and was first elected to public office in the state, as a member of the House of Delegates, in 1966. Rockefeller was later elected...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 June 1937
CountryUnited States of America
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And that is a classic example of a lack of accountability to the American people, ... Late Edition.
It is more than apparent to me that the White House has applied heavy pressure in recent days, in recent weeks, to prevent the committee from doing its job.
It's not a happy outcome and it has to be fixed.
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Everyone knows that coal mining is very dangerous, but you go into it every day thinking it's going to be all right.
We don't know how to protect against any biological (weapon). ... You play it safe, and the plane doesn't fly, and people are going to have to get used to that, and people are not going to like that, but it's what you've got to do in this era,
I am deeply concerned that the FAA is losing a number of its most senior safety inspectors and does not have the ability to replace them,
I won't believe it until I see it. I don't think it's in their interest to give us those documents, because I think it's going to show some things that are very troublesome to the American people.
I don't think so, and that's partly the problem of not checking cargo, and it's partly the problem of biological weapons, which nobody has figured out really what to do about yet