Mitch Landrieu: “The injustice is that Federal law allows interior States--and I think rightfully so, and I most certainly support it and…”

“The injustice is that Federal law allows interior States--and I think rightfully so, and I most certainly support it and would even argue it should be increased--but in the interior States, when they do any kind of mining or resource recovery on Federal land, the State that hosts that Federal land and the surrounding communities share 50 percent to compensate for impacts because there are roads that have to be built. ... So we are sending $4 and $5 billion in royalties and revenues to the Federal Treasury. In addition to sending the oil, in addition to sending the gas, we are also sending huge amounts of money to the Federal Treasury, and our States get nothing, nothing in direct aid. My next amendment is going to be about changing that.”