A former Vice Presidential candidate says the current makeup of the U.S. Senate, with Democrats in control, does not reflect West Virginia’s best interests.

“If you want to stop the ‘War on Coal,’ you’ve got to have the United States Senate that is a (Republican) majority so that we can stop the ‘War on Coal.’ We can’t just do this from the House,” U.S. Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said on Monday’s MetroNews “Talkline.”

Ryan was a guest on the show ahead of a roundtable discussion in Charleston focused on jobs in, what he called, the “Obama economy.” It was a campaign event for Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), the Republican U.S. Senate candidate.

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