"Have they been paying for the maintenance of the mine?"
"If there are viable parties still existing that mine this ore, don't they bear the ultimate financial responsibility for this?"
"I want to avoid this problem happening again."
"But if you are a small 7-Eleven or a small convenience store and the bank takes your money and says it is your fault."
"This gold mine was closed, right?"
"Was anybody fired over this 3-million-gallon spill of toxic chemicals into this river?"
"And now we are going to pile more regulation on these businesses, and we are going to smother that very opportunity."
"This regulation, this new regulation from what I read in this memo here will affect 1.8 million people."
"So to say that a 'one-size-fits-all' across the country is something that is justifiable is absolutely absurd and ludicrous, and by any standard it is ridiculous."
"This is a horrifying statistic, and it bodes very poorly for our children and our grandchildren."
"The result of that is that household incomes are stagnant. They have actually dropped 8.7 percent since 2007."