Edward Markey actually said...

"if we are going to avoid an even larger crisis and more severe price spikes in the future, we need to introduce some ruthless Darwinian-style competition into the helium market in order to incentivize..."

"in my opinion, Adam Smith would be spinning in his grave if he could see the way in which we were allocating this Federal resource to four companies at below market prices without competition."

"the BLM should adopt policies that open its crude helium sales to a broader array of buyers and make the process of establishing the selling price of crude helium from the Federal helium reserve more ..."

"Our nation's Federal Helium Reserve supplies nearly HALF of the helium used in the United States and roughly a THIRD of all the helium used globally."