we are speaking loudly and proudly in our support for the Superior National Forest Restoration Act as proposed by Congressman Stauber

strongly supports the efforts of Congressman Stauber with his proposed legislation as well as the utilization of House Concurrent Resolution 34

The difference between the benefits that I had working for a mine and others, I didn't have to put together a GoFundMe site.

I was deeply disappointed when the Biden Administration placed a 20-year ban on mining on 225,000 acres of land in northeast Minnesota earlier this year in my former legislative district.

With only 16 days left of his administration, President Obama pulled the Federal leases and moved to ban mining for purely political reasons.

He didn't backed down. He doubled down. He talked about police officer being a thug. He said he would, as you know, pardon a bunch of the insurrectionists and he called January 6 a beautiful day.

The fact is they are not even allowing the facts and the science to go forward in an Environmental Impact Statement in this case.

I look forward to working together to pass a strong farm bill that is written by farmers for farmers.

I look forward to working with you to pass a strong farm bill that is written by farmers, for farmers.

I think that we are a policy committee and not an appropriations committee.

It's an outrage, and he is responsible for it.

Hearing held on Thursday, May 11, 2023

You can't put your tailings waste facility on our land because that will expose us to potential Superfund liability.

That is exactly what it does, exactly what it does. And that is going to help with the supply chain.

The average electric car battery contains about 80 pounds of nickel, which means that because of the mineral withdrawal, the administration has stripped the U.S. of the potential to make more than 337 million electric vehicles.

Simply saying 'no' to domestic mining instead of allowing all stakeholders to evaluate projects based on their merits to determine the best outcome is counterproductive to achieving our goals.

I have actually been pushing people from the White House to our--my fellow Members of Congress in briefings, both closed door and open, that we want to make sure one of the major goals of any rules that we adopt, whether it is the…

Locking up a domestic treasure trove of minerals only increases our dangerous reliance on sourcing metals from foreign adversaries.