Bruce Westerman actually said...

"As we pour more money into an electrified economy, we are increasing the labor participation rate in Congo with forced labor, with child slave labor."

"We are also seeing actions from the Administration to shut down mining, and those two things really don't go hand in hand."

"Oversight should be a bipartisan effort by Congress to exercise our constitutional duty to have checks and balances over an administration."

"And if we develop those minerals here and develop the other parts of the supply chain, then that means generating huge amounts of wealth for the United States, for U.S. workers, for great jobs in rura..."