Brian Bilbray: “But that is like saying that the people that are a victim of counterfeit isn't going to be prosecuted as counterfeiters…”

I don't know what part of the country you hail from.

Mr. Bunker, I think you and everybody else that's required to enforce either a law or regulation understands that when the Legislature passes a law, there's always the assumption of discretionary enforcement.

How much interrelationship, or communication do you have with the Interior Department about opening up public lands for mining of these rare earths?

Can you imagine what the response would be from the people in Boston or New York or Washington, DC, if they tried to make a phone call and someone in a foreign language, or in English, notifies them that France--you know, the Paris cell…