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Could lose -- i'm one of those miners that will lose his health care at the end of april if they don't pass that law. i come from local 1440 in a little town down the river where mcdowell's water goes to when it leaves mcdowell county and we're one of the largest locals in the umwa, we have over 800 members, all inactive. they are all retired. we look at things different and look at our health care and what we've already worked out. we're not going to mine any more coal. our coal mining days are over and we looked at -- to have the funds that we've worked for, that were promised to us taken ca...

By the countries that went bankrupt and make sure those countries get the pensions and the health care that they desperately need. [ applause ] >> so since you're working in the mines and coal is a boom bust business, folks agree with that, right? >> yes. >> times get good, people get flush, people get jobs, everyone goes under, right, comes back. there's always that sense that maybe it's going to come back. do you think that the president could get the mines opening again? can you imagine a future mcdowell where coal comes back the way it was in 1980? >> i hope it does. i don't know the futur...

>> and when we talk about the future, education is obviously the key. the world is changing. [ applause ] again, this is not radicalism. i want every kid in burlington, vermont, and mcdowell, west virginia, to know if he or she studies hard and does well in school, that those kids will be able to go to a public college or university tuition-free. [cheers and applause ] and that transforms education because kids will say i will study because i will have an opportunity to get a higher education regardless of the income of my family. so i think those are some of the goals that we should be strivi...