"I think those who are watching have had an interesting window into some of the forces that have taken us to the brink of a government shutdown."
"repealing it would actually make things worse?"
"It seems to me that putting a couple of wars on the national credit card, cutting taxes for the rich, and looking the other way while Wall Street crashes the economy had a lot to do with it."
"I appreciate that very much, and I will thank you for your answer."
"This legislation should be opposed."
"A host of studies that were published after the Bush rule show that mountaintop removal mines not only damaged the environment, but also caused cardiovascular disease, cancer, birth defects, and poor ..."
"Doesn't this violate OSM's mandate under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, SMCRA, to set standards that are guided by science and based on best available technology?"
"The bill we are discussing here today would stop the Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining from adopting a new rule to protect the people of Appalachia from destructive mountaintop removal mi..."
"It is ironic that we are here 2 days after the full Natural Resources Committee was considering a bill to name much of our oceans after Ronald Reagan."
"This is a bill that has no chance of becoming law."
"The 2008 Bush rule exempts waste disposal practices associated with mountain-top removal mining from the buffer zone requirement."