Pete Domenici: “So one can stand up and say: There must have been great lobbying from the coal companies. Well, the coal companies did…”

“So one can stand up and say: There must have been great lobbying from the coal companies. Well, the coal companies did not have to lobby. All we had to do was have a brain and to know there is coal and say: Well, what are we going to do so somebody will invest money in coal, servicing our country in a bigger and better way? If it turns out some choose to come to the floor and label that indecent lobbying by a big company, I am sorry, we could have done this if no coal company ever visited us, I assure you. I say to the Senator, we have Senators like you who told us about it.”