Mike Simpson actually said...

"I always have figured that these are owned by the people of the United States and consequently if you allow someone else to extract them, that the people of the United States ought to get a certain pe..."

"If you can get people together beforehand, get them on the plane early, you can solve a lot of the problems that would come up later on."

"I am hopeful that this committee keeps a very close eye, and I am sure we will, on how these funds are being used."

"I am very concerned that a year or two years or three years from now we will be sitting here having hearings on the misuse of those funds or the waste of those funds."