Bruce Westerman actually said...

"So, we would have a lot of squeeze and not much juice out of this new law."

"Right. So, when you build this battery plant, where are you going to get the lithium, the metals, the rare earths that are needed to build the batteries? Where will they come from?"

"I find it ironic that we are having a hearing on Mining Act reform."

"I am bewildered and disappointed when the Department of the Interior and many of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle take actions and support bills--like the bill we are discussing today--to ..."