Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I am going to read directly from USGS's testimony on this bill in committee: ``As a possible way to manage the two lists, the USGS supports this bill.'' That is verbatim from their testimony in committee. Also, we can talk about copper for a long time because it is the poster child of misguided principles and misguided regulations in our country. However, there is more on the list than just copper. Let's talk about electrical steel. Electrical steel goes into transformers. Mr. Speaker, if you want to build new transmission lines and transmission systems, then you have to have transformers. You can't build transformers without electrical steel. It is not on the critical minerals list, but it is on the Critical Materials List. What about fluorine? Nuclear reactors and electronics depend on fluorine. It is on the Critical Materials List. It is not on the critical minerals list. Here is a good one: silicon carbide. Congress passed this massive bill to subsidize semiconductor companies to build chips factories here in the United States. Actually it was called the CHIPS bill. We are going to build chips facilities in the United States, but we can't produce the silicon carbide needed to put into those chips facilities.…”