Bruce Westerman

The Biden administration continues repeating the same talking points about the need to invest in infrastructure, underserved communities, and social and environmental justice.

The price of a new car is a whopping $48,000, and even used car prices average around $26,500.

The average price of gasoline was $3.53 a gallon. That is nearly a full dollar higher than when President Trump left office.

Decisions made by CEQ have real impacts on American families, and it is time to face those facts.

We have lower greenhouse emissions, stringent labor laws, yet continually seek to move the goal posts, which results in nothing more than outsourcing our resources needs to countries that routinely violate human rights laws.

The left's race to achieve a clean energy standard is simply unsustainable, at least on the timeline that the Biden administration has set forth.

Time and time again, we have seen President Biden abuse executive authority to promote his radical eco-agenda created by academics and social activists.

The Biden administration has continued on a relentless march towards expansion, particularly by trying to reimagine the energy sector as a puppet of environmental activism.

It might be the Southern. Is it your position that if there is any copper or nickel or cobalt mined in Superior National Forest, that the Boundary Waters Canoe Area is over as we know it today?

You can't even go through the process because it has been usurped by an activist administration.

It needs to start with mining, though. We need that ore, and this is an opportunity to extract that ore domestically.

About 3 years is what I understand.

But we have an administrative state that tries to usurp the will of Congress, which, really, if you can tell, probably gets under my skin.

It is interesting that it is not that we went through the environmental permitting process and found out there were problems; you can't even go through the process because it has been usurped by an activist administration.

How long does it take to permit a mine in Canada in this area?

I mean, up or down? Towards gravity or away from gravity?

When the cost of sportsmen's activities go up, participation goes down.

Sportsmen and women contribute hundreds of millions of dollars each year to wildlife conservation through the Pittman-Robinson and Dingell-Johnson programs.

Unless you have the science clearly in hand, you must not promulgate regulations that will lead to the guaranteed loss of hunters and anglers from the landscape.

I would probably propose to call it RAHA, Restoring America's Habitat Act, because that will do more to restore wildlife than anything else.

I am adamantly opposed to blanket lead bans on national wildlife refuges, and I think it is going to hurt the system.

I hope that after today's hearing, Members on both sides of our dais will consider co-sponsoring this important piece of legislation.

The bipartisan Save Our Sequoias Act will codify emergency actions, provide the necessary funding to complete the work, and enhance the coordination.

We need to go in and do the work proactively before the fires get there.

If we don't clear out these hazardous fuels, it is not an exaggeration to say, as the video said, the giant sequoias could disappear in our lifetime.