I further ask the Senator from California, it has been my experience in Illinois that coal mining companies and oil exploration companies will go out and buy private land, at least an easement or right to drill on private land, and pay compensation to the landowner for that purpose. But in this situation, we are dealing with land owned by the people of America----
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