It is time to set a policy of this dark and atrocious chapter, not to forget it.

My Clean Energy Minerals Reform Act will improve the way we do mining in several fundamental ways.

the harm that was done to Native American tribes was unfortunately inflicted deliberately with the goal of not only forcing cultural assimilation but also of achieving territorial dispossession.

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.

I don't think there is any disagreement on any side of the aisle here regarding human rights issues.

If we are going to create this domestic product for our own security, there are no guarantees that that domestic product is not exported.

The mining industry has seized the opportunity to wreak havoc on our public lands, environment, Indigenous communities, and public health--without any semblance of accountability.

I think the critical way, in terms of facilitating critical minerals, is going to be involving everybody through a land planning process.

This Congress must confront our stories and the painful history of boarding schools.

I am going to have the difficult responsibility today to sit in for the Chair of the Subcommittee, Mr. Lowenthal.

I think we need to be very clear about the taxpayer resources that are being expended here.

So, a track record of human rights violations, worker violations is not sufficient to create a ban?