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This is so screwed up about the Obama administration. You're here illegally, you commit a crime, you deport them.

I really do believe that one of the untold stories, the biggest--one of the biggest threats that we have, are those that are coming illegally to the United States.

How do you do that? You give them an excuse to make a decision, put some poor officer there...

The concept is we reinforce engineering principles and fundamentals at sites, and that is where that collaboration between government, industry, and academia will work effectively.

A lot of the needs we are going to have in future research with you will be in mine reclamation.

So, what we are talking about is we need as a government to try to increase people to go into the industry, to go into the Federal workforce, but also who can become teachers.

The Federal Government cannot handle the job. The EPA doesn't even have the mining engineering expertise to do so.

The Obama administration's credibility in managing abandoned mines is at an all-time low

Americans need to have those jobs, and we need to start training Americans to take those jobs and expand and make better an industry that still has a lot to give to this country.

We have 400,000 abandoned mines still here in the country, and it brought into question the ability of the Federal Government to adequately manage those other mines and to clean them up, whether they can handle it or not.

That is part of a larger package that we have put together that deals with the Gold King Mine in the omnibus bill that should have been prevented and could have easily been prevented.

I want to thank everyone who is here as well, especially the Colorado School of Mines for hosting this event.

I am going to insist on my point of order. This motion to recommit involves subject matter that is different from the bill. The fundamental purpose of the motion is unrelated to the bill. I insist on my point of order.

Despite the fact that our colleagues, Mr. McClintock and Don Young, were put on this watch list-- actually, for Don Young maybe it fits. Point of Order

If I could inquire of the gentlewoman from Massachusetts how many more speeches she has. There is one person coming down, but I don't know if he will make it. I think, in light of the time, I am ready to close if she is ready to close…

When you can't do a survey in 6 years, maybe somebody should insist the Federal Government's agencies do it. I reserve the balance of my time.

I have some other speakers who are on their way, so I will reserve in the hopes that I can hear some other speeches that care about people who are about to lose their homes by the actions of this government, that we actually care about…

Senator Hatch, a member of this Committee, did a wonderful job in developing the Hatch-Waxman act.