06/22/2009
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"As the chairman mentioned, it is difficult to overstate the importance of the work of our committee."
"I don't think we can look at this regulatory side and permitting side in terms of what needs to be done there, relative to mining and critical minerals without overlapping on that 1872 mining law."
"the Biden administration is effectively not only standing in the way, but making it impossible for the kind of critical mineral extraction in this topic to get done."
"One of the things I have been promoting, if we are serious about, is that those mining companies that have those horrendous human, environmental, and labor abuses, and are doing businesses in other pa..."