"The Federal Government has been given way too much power."
"If we didn't learn anything from COVID, shame on us."
"I think the mining companies are just looking for clarity on--there is a fixed time, and if we don't make it through, then we don't make it through."
"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."
"Why aren't we allowed to do what we know we can do, and why doesn't anybody trust the people that live in these areas?"
"The bureaucracy, you have people inserted that believe that they are there to stop something."
"If we are worried, really worried, about climate change, we ought to be looking at bringing the smelting process back to the United States."
"We need to have permitting reform to mine in our country, to process, and manufacture."
"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..."
"I urge my colleagues to support my Section 230 Reform, Stop the Censorship Act, which empowers users with the editorial contract."