"It is amazing to me how, when there is one objective, NEPA is really important; when there is another objective, it is really not that big of an issue."
"I didn't know there was so much oil and gas exploration in Nevada."
"Unless we wanted to continue sending money to communist China, who is commanding the production of minerals and elements around the world."
"This is not the first time, nor do we expect it to be the last time, that this Secretary refuses to acknowledge us."
"How can the Secretary of Interior make a decision that has such an economic impact on our community of Kaktovik without any formal Tribal Consultation through our sovereign relationship with the feder..."
"So, the point I am making is, as much as this Administration pushes back, as much as the agencies push back and fail to help U.S. producers produce the energy here, it is doing absolutely nothing to s..."
"It is hard to get a permit to do mining there, as well."
"Those of us who participated in the Committee's September 17 field hearing in Hot Springs were able to experience firsthand the enormous impact that historic leasing--and the Federal historic tax cred..."
"I know you might want to call it a gimmick, but it is a gimmick that had bipartisan support, and President Biden signed it. And the point is, it is the law."
"I want to make the record clear that we not only invited Chair Mallory with plenty of notice, but also allowed her to provide a designee for this hearing."
"That is why it is important for us to have these hearings and to come up with better policy moving forward."
"It seems that reports like this one that came out yesterday fly right in the face of that."
"The lukewarm response from this administration regarding Russia's menacing behavior has been too slow and insufficient to mount a strong deterrent."
"I will say I was obviously very disappointed, but not surprised to hear of several extremely harmful recommendations to change our domestic mining system."
"Thank you again to the witnesses."
"One hundred percent of 40 percent of the energy in my state is dependent on uranium pellets from Russia. To me, that is unacceptable."
"The people in this room know that we will need to mine six times more in the future than what we mine today to meet our mineral demands."
"For the sake of our country, I strongly urge the Administration to accept that shutting down domestic mining while increasing demand at the same time will lead the United States to disaster."
