Michael Bennet actually said...

"We have asked you and the President to find resources and try to prioritize funding for a water treatment plant in the Upper Animas River."

"We need to reform the 1872 Mining Law to make sure that companies pay royalties to taxpayers."

"This same amount of polluted water was already being released from the Gold King Mine about every week."

"It's also clear that the agency was slow to communicate with local governments and didn't obtain water quality results."