"I know you might want to call it a gimmick, but it is a gimmick that had bipartisan support, and President Biden signed it. And the point is, it is the law."
"I want to make the record clear that we not only invited Chair Mallory with plenty of notice, but also allowed her to provide a designee for this hearing."
"That is why it is important for us to have these hearings and to come up with better policy moving forward."
"It seems that reports like this one that came out yesterday fly right in the face of that."
"I will say I was obviously very disappointed, but not surprised to hear of several extremely harmful recommendations to change our domestic mining system."
"The lukewarm response from this administration regarding Russia's menacing behavior has been too slow and insufficient to mount a strong deterrent."
"Thank you again to the witnesses."
"One hundred percent of 40 percent of the energy in my state is dependent on uranium pellets from Russia. To me, that is unacceptable."
"The people in this room know that we will need to mine six times more in the future than what we mine today to meet our mineral demands."
"For the sake of our country, I strongly urge the Administration to accept that shutting down domestic mining while increasing demand at the same time will lead the United States to disaster."
"It is, again, a pleasure to be here."