Political Quotes

“I have 3 minutes, and I will be glad to as soon as I have finished my summation, if I have time, sir. But let me go over the points. This is a job for robots. I know it's a touchy term for my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, but the reality is Rio Tinto is a pioneer in automation. They've done it in Australia; they've done it in other parts of the world. There is no reason to believe that that same pattern is not going to be applied to the mine that they own in Resolution. The sucking sound that we will be hearing will be the loss of water levels in that area and the effect it will have. And it's a copper caper, using unusual appraisal procedures which does not guarantee that the company is going to pay any fair price for the billions of dollars of copper they stand to receive from the American people. Like I said earlier, something has to be sacred. H.R. 1904 trades away many sites that are sacred to Native people. We've received pleas from Indian Country over and over again; and we should deal with those issues before the land exchange, not as this legislation has it, after. Add insult to injury, we keep talking about jobs. There is an agenda before this Congress to begin to immediately create jobs for the American people. That is stalled--and from what I hear from leadership, permanently derailed. So as the American people look for real employment and real opportunity, we present a false hope in this legislation, something that hasn't been vetted.…”