Bruce Westerman actually said...

"we have got to produce more of our rare earth minerals here, in the United States, to fuel our green economy."

"They added that a city using mass timber construction will become a carbon sink versus a carbon source."

"From the Yale study, the authors stated that mass timber construction has the potential to create a vast bank vault that could store up to 68 million tons of carbon, annually."

"We know that forests are the largest scale, most efficient system to pull carbon out of the atmosphere, and wood products like we see here on this dais are 40 to 50 percent, by weight, stored carbon."