It is good that Congress is back at work. A lot of us have been not just slipping out and taking a break.

Just last month, Joe Biden chose to ban mining in more than 225,000 acres of an industrial working forest called the Superior National Forest, in the district that I represent.

It shouldn't require Congress having to have hearings and pass laws to do the right thing.

It is wrong. It is misguided, and it is time we hold them accountable.

Those actions don't exactly promote investor confidence.

We were talking about American energy independence. We were talking about cutting supply lines that depended on China and Russia and foreign adversaries.

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 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.

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 rural communities.

Oversight should be a bipartisan effort by Congress to exercise our constitutional duty to have checks and balances over an administration.

We are also seeing actions from the Administration to shut down mining, and those two things really don't go hand in hand.