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.

I commend Mr. Huffman and Mr. LaMalfa for bringing this legislation forward. I think this could actually be a model that could be expanded on across the country so that recreation fees collected in a certain area could be retained and used…

The lukewarm response from this administration regarding Russia's menacing behavior has been too slow and insufficient to mount a strong deterrent.

I again thank Mr. Valadao for bringing this important piece of legislation. I thank the ranking member and the minority for their support on this bill. Again, we must provide all necessary tools for the wildland firefighting agencies so…

I must say it is an honor to work with a colleague like Chairman Thompson who cares so much about forest health, and I appreciate the ranking member in the minority for supporting this bill as well, as it did pass unanimously out of both…

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.

Thank you again to the witnesses.

The magnitude of our forest health crises demands an all-hands-on-deck approach that utilizes all of the tools in the toolbox. The Good Neighbor Authority has proven to be an exceptional tool when used by the States. We need to improve and…

I will say I was obviously very disappointed, but not surprised to hear of several extremely harmful recommendations to change our domestic mining system.

I have no further requests for time. I am prepared to close, and I continue to reserve the balance of my time.

It seems that reports like this one that came out yesterday fly right in the face of that.

That is why it is important for us to have these hearings and to come up with better policy moving forward.