James Inhofe actually said...

This is exactly the sort of shovel-ready infrastructure spending for which there is a broad bipartisan consensus.

I can remember when we went through the crisis in September. At that time, I reminded everyone that we had a problem 10 years prior to that ...

The good news is the Administration announced yesterday they were committed to fixing this within the next 6 weeks.

Mountaintop mining is politically sensitive because environmentalists were an active force behind Obama's election.