"The Hard Rock Mining Reform and Reclamation Act that Ranking Member Grijalva and I introduced earlier this year would make a number of reforms to the Mining Law of 1872."
"I just want to say that I found this discussion fascinating, about some of the issues around mining in the United States, but this is not germane to the topic of this bill."
"What this bill does is eviscerate that definition, and says that all minerals now meet that definition, which I think is really not appropriate."
"I support the goal that the United States have a steady supply of these important materials."
"H.R. 1937 misses the mark on this opportunity."
"H.R. 1937 ignores this well-established definition."
"I want to hear from you--I guess it is my assumption after listening--if you were advising us you would advise us, given the present circumstances, to vote against the TPP?"
"I was so disappointed and, frankly, absolutely shocked when just a few days after returning to the United States I learned that Nguyen Chi Tuyen... was badly beaten by five plainclothes police officer..."
"I think this is the inappropriate way to do it. Instead of working now at this moment to release prisoners of conscience..."
"I don't want to see TPP be achieved at the expense of human rights."
"We should be really holding their feet to the fire and letting them demonstrate not after they become part of the TPP, but before they do that."