Brian Bilbray: “What worries some of us is that we are starting to see this as being an excuse to intervene in other companies.”

How much interrelationship, or communication do you have with the Interior Department about opening up public lands for mining of these rare earths?

I appreciate it, Mr. Chairman, and I appreciate the minority's consideration. With that, I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. Bilbray). The…

But that is like saying that the people that are a victim of counterfeit isn't going to be prosecuted as counterfeiters when the fact is they're losing value down the line.

From the consumer's point of view, the purchaser, right now when it comes to illegal employment, we put the burden on the employer to check with an old I-9 system that has been so fraudulent that everybody knows it's just a scam for…