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Im glad you have time for us tonight. weve been trying to get you on. i know you had other things going on. you, i think at this point, are a real important part of this story to keep it alive. can you tell us, tonight, if the senate had passed your bill would this have been averted? would these 29 people still be alive today? what do you think? >> well, i know that when -- in the reaction to the last series of mining accidents that we had with the sago mine and darby mine and others, we passed ...

Dont have more reforms, faster acceleration towards alternative energy is because nobody wants to mess with the coal industry. >> natural gas has been increasing in its deployment in replacing coal as a power source for electricity. its half as pollutive but costs twice as much. do you view these types of tragedies in the sago mine tragedy and others as creating any of the political courage necessary to pass, for instance, the s miner legislation or other costs of cheap coal? >> theres an old sa...