I am glad the Biden administration withdrew it. I am glad they are following the science.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Mississippi for yielding. I happen to represent every border community and every port of entry along the Arizona-Mexico border. It is my home, where I grew up, and that is where I live. That is where…

And our clean energy future should not be an excuse to extend mining industries' control and destruction even further.

As long as that law maintains where no royalties are paid, I don't care if the company is foreign, like in this case, Chilean, I don't care.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member Ocasio-Cortez.

I have introduced H.R. 630, the Urban Indian Health Confer Act, to create a Department-wide confer policy with urban Indian organizations.

Our clean energy future should not be an excuse to extend mining industries' control and destruction even further.

I again want to recognize Speaker McCarthy and Representative Peters, who are co-leads of the legislation, who are about as passionate about giant sequoias as I am and many others in this room are.

When President Clinton designated the Giant Sequoia National Monument over 20 years ago, he said, and I quote, 'We are here because we recognize that these trees, though they live to be very old and grow very large, like life itself, are…

And the factors that are really needed right now to continue the ongoing work and to scale up?

I hope that as the Committee moves forward on this legislation, we are able to do it in a truly bipartisan manner.