all 86,000 umwa mine workers are facing crippling pension countries. they are not alone, hundreds of thousands of teamsters in virginia and ohio and pennsylvania and iron workers in cleveland and dayton, so many retirees and workers' pensions at risk. congress tried to ignore these retirees. retirees rally outside the capitol on 90-degree days in july and rallied outside the capitol on 15-degree days in february. we saw them around the capitol. they don't give up. many of them are veterans. they left the mines to serve their country. they went back into the mines. now we need, as they fought for us, we need to fight for .they it comes back to the dignity of work. when work has dignity, we honor the retirement security people earned. we honor work. we respect work. the dignity work is about wages, it's about their retirement, it's about their health care, it's about safety in the workplace. that's why i wear this pin, it's a depiction of a canary. when a mine worker would take a canary in the mine and they didn't always have someone to protect them. too