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Dale Bumpers: “It is just a question of whether you are willing to do right or not. We are mining $2 billion worth just in gold a year…”

On the recordApril 2, 1998
It is just a question of whether you are willing to do right or not. We are mining $2 billion worth just in gold a year off Federal lands that we have given the mining companies--gave them. They pay no royalty. They didn't pay anything for it. Eighty percent of the gold mined in this country goes for jewelry. And we are willing to subsidize that to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars a year when we have disabled children in school waiting for us to fulfill a promise? It is just as simple as that.
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Dale Bumpers
Arkansas
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Addressing the issue of mining royalties and funding for disabled children.

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