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Governor Morrisey Reflects on Year in Review

Published December 22, 2025 | Video Starts at 21:52

Men and women are different, and we're reflecting that within West Virginia law. And we certainly want to make sure we keep men out of women's sports. I am optimistic we're going to win that case. I applaud Attorney General J.B. mcCoskey for continuing to fight on that. And I know their team is big, busily working away, getting ready for oral argument. (21:52–21:56)

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“73, 74,000 underserved or unserved areas [in West Virginia] will receive reliable high-speed connectivity.”
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“The rural health transformation application is a minimum of $500 million for the state of West Virginia.”
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“We had a number of people who died in floods this year, in the Southern floods earlier this year, and also in Ohio county.”
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“Sarah Beckstrom so valiant and lost her life to a terrorist.”
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“Andrew continues to make progress.”
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“We've put so much time and energy into economic development. That's been our number one priority.”
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“We're cutting red tape.”
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“We have been able to cut red tape.”
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“Our One Stop Shop permitting bill, when that's complete, that's going to help West Virginia cut red tape faster than any state in America.”
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“We had our universal licensing bill. That's a pretty cool one as well because we've already seen that that has caused significant bump up in…”
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“The number one issue facing West Virginians, we have to grow our workforce participation and grow our population.”
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“We passed what I think will ultimately be one of the biggest economic development bills since I've been here, because we're already getting…”
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“We're forecasting the need of 10 or 15,000 openings on contractor jobs for all the projects that are in front of us.”
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“That's over 5,000 jobs projected. Now, a lot of them are construction jobs.”
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“We're looking at well over 75 million of investments in water, sewer, site selection.”
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“West Virginia fortunately ranks at or near the bottom of many of the major metrics [for health issues].”
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“This year it's a 3% increase [in PIA], and that's because of a lot of the hard work that our administration has done.”
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“We've been working to root out DEI and eliminate the WOKE virus in West Virginia.”
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“I signed the Riley Gaines Act.”
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“There's a Supreme Court case and this results from the appeal that I filed as Attorney General.”
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“That's going to be heard on January 13th.”
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“We certainly want to make sure we keep men out of women's sports.”
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“We're focusing on the right things and we're going to keep doing that.”
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“We need to make more progress.”
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“We have to keep managing the budget the right way.”
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“There's more work that needs to be done to return more money to the people and also to cut more red tape.”
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“We're going to take advantage of the dollars that are there, like broadband and rural health most assuredly.”
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