Edward Markey actually said...

"The 1872 Mining Law is perhaps the grandfather of all anti-environmental giveaways."

"the oil industry and the mining industry, as they right now get away without paying their fair share of the dues to live in our country."

"What price? How buyable are Americans? How low do we get when we start taking our key heirlooms and we start selling them to Dutch Royal Shell or British Petroleum?"

"If I may, Mr. Chairman, just to say I felt that we needed this hearing so that the deficit reduction aspect of that hearing that we have already had was properly inserted into the record."