03/07/2011
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"But you never do treaties from a weak point, you do it from a power of strength. So, in the aspect of trying to say no to China, we actually make it worse for us and better for them."
"If we are worried, really worried, about climate change, we ought to be looking at bringing the smelting process back to the United States."
"If we are going to fund dealing with the due diligence on the chain, expediting permitting processes, a source of revenue should come from those that are profiting from that extraction."
"Today, we will examine the dependence of the United States on foreign adversaries for critical minerals, a dependence that undermines our national sovereignty, our economic prosperity, and our technol..."