"We have a long ways to go to make sure that America is energy independent, that we are not relying on foreign allies, or foreign adversaries."
"We were talking about American energy independence. We were talking about cutting supply lines that depended on China and Russia and foreign adversaries."
"Those actions don't exactly promote investor confidence."
"We are going to write legislation, and we are going to pass that out of House and hopefully work in a bipartisan manner."
"We also need an all-of-the-above minerals approach: new mining, recycling, and being as efficient and effective as we can."
"We do need to work on trade. We do need to make American, not only mining, but processing and manufacturing, stronger than ever before."
"As we pour more money into an electrified economy, we are increasing the labor participation rate in Congo with forced labor, with child slave labor."
"We are also seeing actions from the Administration to shut down mining, and those two things really don't go hand in hand."
"Oversight should be a bipartisan effort by Congress to exercise our constitutional duty to have checks and balances over an administration."
"And if we develop those minerals here and develop the other parts of the supply chain, then that means generating huge amounts of wealth for the United States, for U.S. workers, for great jobs in rura..."
"We can't mine and permit our way out of this. Actually, we would have to permit and then mine."