I am concerned that if we don't get off the dime, and get this done, now, the opportunity will be lost.
I, you know, I sat here and listened to Senator McCain, and then I listened to Senator Kyl, and obviously they have diff...
But both indicate considerable frustration on this, and we're not getting answers, here.
I don't think anybody here cares about NEPA, that's after the bill passes.
I'll just close with this point. America is great, over the last 200-plus years, because we have found ways to capitaliz...
The NEPA process isn't going to start until after this bill passes, am I right on that?
What, I think, this committee is looking for is a thumbs up or a thumbs down from the administration.
As wise investors of the nation's public lands, isn't it better to invest in something that gives us a big return?
It would be unconscionable to allow this proposed legislation, S. 409, to go forward.
For many years now, mining in Arizona has been barely a blip on the chart.
What is the benefit/cost ratio of the proposed copper mine?
If you do publish this and say, look, this is what these bad guys did, and then don't do anything about it, it doesn't--...
In the camps themselves, who provides the security?
Is it the result of ethnic prejudice or that sort of thing? What's the source of that?
I guess I apologize for my parochial view of holding people accountable, but to me holding people accountable is draggin...
It would be unfair to punish that region of the country for carrying out the national policy of the 1970s.
I hope--some of Senator Lugar's questions, I hope, have been answered, and we look forward to continuing this dialogue.
I've called on the Obama administration, both in private and in public, to vastly improve and broaden its education camp...