Brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Now, West Virginia republican governor jim justice delivers his state of the state address from charleston. He spoke about education funding, health care, and investing in the Coal Industries in the state. This is an hour and 20 minutes. [ applause ] [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, it is my distinct privilege to welcome this evening his exlen seicelle the honorable james c. Justice. [ applause ] okay. If yall dont want to be here all night, sit down. They got me wired every way you can wire somebody up, which is good. You know, the first thing i would tell you is its a great, great evening in the state of West Virginia. And i bless you in every way, and i thank you in every way for being here. You know, today is a great day, a great day in our state. You know, before we go any further, id like to recognize my family. You know, i havent seen you and catherine since you got here. But my beautiful wife kathy, daughter jill
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Could members of the media please move out of our way so we can begin the hearing . Mr. Horn, you can sit in that chair. Thank you. Thank you and good morning. We now convene this hearing of the oversight and investigation subcommittee on volkswagen emissions cheating allegations, initial questions. Let me start off by saying my first car was a volkswagen. It was a 76 beetle. I learned a lot about cars. I could take that thing apart continued to work. I did all the maintenance myself because volkswagen had a legacy as the peoples car to be people friendly. I loved that car. Loved it a lot. Not so much as to call it brad, but i loved that car. But i trusted the car to get me around. I trusted volkswagen would continue to build a reliable car. That word trust alone as you know is the key factor in Building Customer loyalty. That trust is what helped build volkswagen because we believed its company looked out for customers first. Then three weeks ago car owners around the world were shock
West Virginia University kicked off its Sixth Annual Research Week Monday which looks to highlight the accomplishments in research from each of the university's colleges.
Two WVU research projects are in line to receive some major funding to further their studies. U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) has announced that $504,000 will go towards two projects.