It is abundantly clear that critical minerals will be the most important global commodity of the 21st century.

Thank you very much. I first want to recognize and thank both Chairmen Graves, Ranking Member Larsen, and Ranking Member Cohen for their leadership to get this bill not only through this committee, but allowing the process to go forward.

The United States has the opportunity to not only be critical mineral independent but critical mineral dominant as well.

Mr. Chair, I rise today in support of H.R. 5283, the Protecting our Communities from Failure to Secure the Border Act, which I am proud to cosponsor. Plenty of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle will stand here today and protest…

It is frustrating that we have great leadership on this committee in a bipartisan fashion pushing an important reauthorization bill, and the Senate sits on it for 5 months.

Now, even our Federal lands meant for conservation, recreation, and development of our great natural resources are being turned into campgrounds for traffickers and terrorists who are marching into our country and breaking our immigration…

In the House-passed FAA reauthorization bill, we tripled authorized funding for the FAA Section 625 Aviation Workforce Development Program.

This bill takes care of the workers above and below the wings, which are so important--they have to work together.

The lack of consultation, to me, is a real shame. And I truly believe that this Administration owes each of you and the communities you represented an apology.

Former Chairman John Kline, while recognizing that the overtime threshold should be responsibly reformed, called the administration's drastic move extreme and partisan.

I am proud to introduce the bipartisan Alaska's Right to Produce Act of 2023, which reverses the Biden administration's recent actions that seek to put an end to oil and gas production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, ANWR, and the…

Thank you very much. Our next witness is Mr. Karlin Itchoak.

as long as I am privileged to be chair of this committee, your community will be represented.

Who benefits from affordable energy? The American people benefit from affordable energy, and I hope we will drill for more oil and gas here in America so that we can have prosperity.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize a hero, a trailblazer, and an inspiration to all, astronaut Virgil ``Gus'' Grissom. Growing up in Indiana, I am honored to pay tribute to this remarkable man as he is inducted into the Indiana…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak in favor of the Small Business Contracting Transparency Act. I thank my colleague, Representative Houlahan, for bringing this up. It is a very good bill and I am proud to stand in support of it. In…

Mr. President, if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:51 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, November 28, 2023, at 10 a.m…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the en bloc consideration of the following Senate resolutions: S. Res. 473, S. Res. 474, and S. Res. 475. There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the…