Mike Simpson actually said...

"We need a commonsense proposal to updating this mining law."

"I just wanted to get it on the record."

"closing 47 of these sites is not in the best interest of Idaho or of the country quite frankly."

"I do not want to see us in 10 years look back and say, man, we have spent a lot of money on this, and we have no coordination, and we got agencies all over the place."