Legislating shouldn't be done in the dark.

China has this policy, One Belt, One Road, and they are actually extorting much of the discipline and oversight and control of these rare critical minerals.

I don't think so. You can probably take that to the bank.

We do these better than anybody else in the world, and if new technology is so predicated upon it, we ought to be investing in this.

This implication is manifested by the dramatic socialist resolution that was introduced last week, the Green New Deal.

The oil and gas natural industry supports 10.3 million U.S. jobs and nearly 8 percent of the U.S. economy.

Delusional Federal mandates proposed in the Green New Deal will only topple America's dominance in the energy economy.

A lot of those jobs are for the construction of solar fields, so they are temporary. They are not long lasting.

Without a memo, the public is kept in the dark and members of this Committee are unable to prepare for an informed debate.

I must have been living in the twilight zone for the first six years of my first eight years.

And I have heard over and over again that climate change is the problem with our forest burning up. That is not the case.

I called it the new alien and sedition act, so I think that's a pretty strong Statement to put in very general terms.