Tom Rice actually said...

If there are viable parties still existing that mine this ore, don't they bear the ultimate financial responsibility for this?

Rice asserts that existing companies should be financially responsible for mine maintenance.

10/20/2015

More Tom Rice Quotes

And it is a real paradox because on the one hand, in these prosperous areas, which are not far way, I have got employers that are screaming ...

Now, their unemployment rate is down; their unemployment rate is lower than it has been in 40 years, and that is good.

But we have way too many people who are outside of the workforce.

But I also represent three of the poorest counties in South Carolina. And they have been struggling for a long, long time.