The Obama Administration was supporting us in these efforts, and we will keep fighting until it is signed into law.
And I would just say this--and I am way over time, Mr. Chairman, and just bear with me just for a second.
We have business people, we have local government-elected officials that say, 'We don't want this.'
If the Senate does their job, you will be able to visit there in four or five years and it will be the same.
We could very well end up in a situation like we have in Butte, where it is one of the largest superfund sites.
There are some places on Earth we simply should not mine. This is one of them.
This is why people come to places like Montana, why they covet places like Montana.
This legislation will help guarantee that large-scale mining will never threaten the headwaters of the Yellowstone.
You talked about, you know, 155,000 veterans that are waiting for appeals.
Unfortunately, 'most veterans' does not necessarily include veterans in my State and other rural States.
It is your belief that the modernization efforts that are in play right now will fix this problem of bad forecasting--and it is bad.