Political Quotes

“Madam Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Chair, once again, let's look at mitigation. The previous speaker on our side, Mr. Stauber from Minnesota, actually talked about it. Well, here is an active mine site called the Pigeon Mine. This is what it looked like: a footprint of less than 40 acres; right around 30 acres. And this is it, newly minted right as it was done for reclamation. In 2 years, you are not going to be able to find anything here. Once again, look at what we are dealing with here. This is an exposed breccia pipe. Any water, any rain, any snow, any air will actually dissolve this and put it in the air--not just uranium, but arsenic as well. These are eroded away. Once again, geology teaches you everything you need to know. Once again, all these breccia pipes are built here. Here is the Grand Canyon. We are not doing anything here. But look at the exposure here for the uranium leaching into the subsurface and into the Colorado River--not just that, but arsenic as well. Look at what we are mining up on here, protecting and clearing that out. And you can see that their mitigation is exemplary. Eighty years ago, we abandoned a bunch of mines, but a lot of Federal Government was to blame about that. We also heard the dissertation in regards to the park could generate all sorts of other revenue. Well, the last time I looked, the park wasn't generating; they were going in the negative. In fact, the backlog on maintenance is over $12 billion.…”