Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. LaMalfa). Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, what do we know about copper? It is extremely important to move forward with any of the technology that Americans are going to require, or certainly what government is likely to require, on electric vehicles and electrification of everything. At a time when the demand for copper is going to skyrocket to be exponentially more, the U.S. is actually producing less copper than it has been. If my colleagues want to talk about a process of trying to get more copper on line in this country, if it takes over two decades to get a mine from an idea to operating and to get through the permit process, certainly it is not like China or someone else is going to come in and just run roughshod over people to get the permit process done because it is hard to get a copper mine open in this country. If that can't get done, then how in the heck are we going to meet any of these standards for electrification or CO<INF>2</INF> reduction by 2045 or 2050 if it takes over two decades? We have already missed the target on just producing the copper if it takes that long to open a copper mine. Simply harmonizing two lists--we are not even talking about the same bill--between DOI and DOE, it is crazy. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Lopez). The time of the gentleman has expired.”