"Reforming the Mining Law of 1872 is long overdue."
"I appreciate the working group. There are balances to be reached here. But one of the premises has to be that this industry has to play by the rules."
"the solutions are simple, but the current Congress leadership is not bringing those solutions to us Americans."
"We shouldn't sacrifice tribal sacred sites, wilderness, national forests, and public health just because the metals coming from the ground will go into a wind turbine."
"We have to start drilling. We have to get our people back to work. We have to get fuel prices down."
"This bill puts a royalty in place for all minerals extracted from public lands."
"If we are going to create this domestic product for our own security, there are no guarantees that that domestic product is not exported."
"My Clean Energy Minerals Reform Act will improve the way we do mining in several fundamental ways."
"This Administration is solely responsible for the disasters we are experiencing now, and I urge you to take that message back. Don't sink with this ship."
"Isn't this reason enough for a royalty charge?"
"I think the critical way, in terms of facilitating critical minerals, is going to be involving everybody through a land planning process."