This amendment will not bring jobs. It will take our $60,000-a-year-plus jobs and give us either unemployment or part-time jobs at minimum wage, and what's interesting is, the data that we do have shows that there's a greater biodiversity after mountaintop mining than there was before.
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The speaker is discussing the impact of an amendment related to mountaintop mining on jobs and biodiversity.
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