Unless we wanted to continue sending money to communist China, who is commanding the production of minerals and elements around the world.

This is not the first time, nor do we expect it to be the last time, that this Secretary refuses to acknowledge us.

How can the Secretary of Interior make a decision that has such an economic impact on our community of Kaktovik without any formal Tribal Consultation through our sovereign relationship with the federal government?

So, the point I am making is, as much as this Administration pushes back, as much as the agencies push back and fail to help U.S. producers produce the energy here, it is doing absolutely nothing to slow down production and consumption…

It is hard to get a permit to do mining there, as well.

Those of us who participated in the Committee's September 17 field hearing in Hot Springs were able to experience firsthand the enormous impact that historic leasing--and the Federal historic tax credit--have had in the park and the…

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.

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