Bruce Westerman actually said...

Despite efforts to try to minimize the significance of this spill, the facts cannot be ignored that 3 million gallons of acidic, heavy metal...

Administrator McCarthy, we cannot put this water back in the hole, but I hope we can hold everyone accountable who negligently let it out.

The obvious negative effects are direct loss of several hundred highways jobs and an economic loss of $500 to $600 million per year.

I have two coal-fired plants in my states that could be closed.