"I'm a labor lawyer presenting coal miners. Hundreds of coal miners and black lung cases, retirees, healthcare cases—all around West Virginia. So, I deal with our health care providers in our rural health clinics, our black lung clinics. And a lot of those health care providers came to me and they said, 'Sam, you know, we're scared about what'll happen if we lose our federal health care programs.'

"Morrisey has filed this lawsuit to eliminate health care for 200,000 West Virginians. I worked for Senator Robert C. Byrd when we enacted that federal health care law. And I helped to write some of it. I helped to write the parts that have brought black lung benefits to thousands of coal miners across this country—$5 billion of black lung benefits have come to American coal miners through the very same health care law Morrisey is trying to take away."