Bruce Westerman actually said...

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 ...