As the U.S. House prepares to vote on a year-end omnibus bill partially intended to fund the government through the upcoming fiscal year, one member of West Virginia’s delegations does not support it.

First District Congressman David McKinley said on Wednesday’s “Talkline” that there isn’t enough in the package legislation to prop up the struggling coal industry.

“We were hoping and intending to use this omnibus legislation as a vehicle to perhaps thwart or roll back some of those concerns so that our coal miners, our families, our businesses could have some certainty.”

His frustrations with the lack of any pro-coal language in the 2,009-page bill handed out early Wednesday morning led to the congressman’s decision to not support it in the current form.

“We don’t have anything on coal ash in here, we don’t have anything on the stream buffer rule that we were promised to have in there, we don’t have anything on that coal miners pension and health care bill that we were working with, we tried to get some riders involving the Clean Power Plan. None of that got into it.”

Negotiations over the bill, which includes the $1.1 trillion stopgap funding measure, have gone on for weeks –a deadline was missed last week, causing the need for a resolution regarding temporary funding– as lawmakers argue over what should and should not be included in the bill.

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