Rob Bishop actually said...

"the Federal Government cannot handle the job. The EPA doesn't even have the mining engineering expertise to do so."

"A lot of the needs we are going to have in future research with you will be in mine reclamation."

"We have 400,000 abandoned mines still here in the country, and it brought into question the ability of the Federal Government to adequately manage those other mines and to clean them up, whether they ..."

"the Obama administration's credibility in managing abandoned mines is at an all-time low"