03/04/2013
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"I have got 9,000 miners in my district laid off in the last few years."
"I have got able-bodied young men with families formerly making $70,000, $80,000 a year in the mining business now trying to find a job at McDonalds, unsuccessfully I might add."
"the States have the premier authority in regulating mining operations, and yet they tell me that it is like talking to a brick wall with your Department."
"I wish we could free up that money for economic development to bring in the new jobs of this world that we live in today."