Neither of these proposals 'fast track' or 'greenlight' a project.

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

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

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

I am introducing the Rural Housing Service Reform Act.

Let's mine the minerals we need for our defense applications, modern technology, and everyday use with American labor in northern Minnesota.

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.

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.

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

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…

It would forward our economy and certainly forward your endeavors as well.

There is going to be no mining in the Boundary Waters or the buffer zone around it.

Hearing held on Thursday, May 11, 2023

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

I look forward to hearing more about that from our expert witnesses, as well as how they utilize the trade programs provided by the farm bill.

I worked to assist beginning farmers by reducing the cost of accessing crop insurance and incentivizing landowners with expiring CRP contracts to sell to beginning farmers.

One of them, I strongly believe, is immigration reform and looking at lifting some of the caps as well as being smart about spouses working.