The 1872 Mining Law is perhaps the grandfather of all anti-environmental giveaways.
the oil industry and the mining industry, as they right now get away without paying their fair share of the dues to live...
What price? How buyable are Americans? How low do we get when we start taking our key heirlooms and we start selling the...
If I may, Mr. Chairman, just to say I felt that we needed this hearing so that the deficit reduction aspect of that hear...
We need to not only end polluter subsidies, but also end of the Bush tax cuts that are largely responsible for our curre...
Real and meaningful reform of the 1872 Mining Law is needed to protect both taxpayers and the environment.
Hardrock mining companies should be required to pay a royalty similar to what other extractive industries pay, a 12.5 pe...
A $200 million reclamation fee similar to the one that is in Mr. Markey's new legislation, H.R. 3446, would clean up min...
It's an area that I'm going to be looking at myself, because I think we need stronger penalties.
With the nature of airports, small rural airports, they have unique challenges. I think it's an area where we should con...
One of them I think is shameful that hasn't been made by us in Congress and elsewhere is that you meet 8:30 every mornin...
When there is a threat on board an aircraft, the FBI responds and investigates. When a pilot makes an error on the aircr...
As Congress, I must say, at a public hearing just like this, we have our own weaknesses. Because the jurisdiction of hom...
I've had numerous people say, 'Why aren't we doing what they do in Israel? That works so well.'
Should we be more risk-based? Should we be looking more at the real threat rather than the grandmother?
I think the problem is pretty obvious. I think if you are having an investigation on commercial aircraft that are flying...
This is a tremendous weakness. ... If we're trying to create uniform standards of security, if we leave that to each loc...
One of the things--and you know when we have these hearings, we have to be careful we don't breach any security or give ...
