Dana Rohrabacher

I think it is really more important to try to challenge witnesses based on the arguments that they are presenting, rather, the facts that they have and their suppositions they are making rather than trying to discredit them.

I would hope that we develop the small modular nuclear reactors that the nuclear industry, which has been opposed by these very same environmentalists over the years, I would hope that we can get together and support nuclear energy as a…

This is not acceptable, and that is one of the reasons we are having this hearing today.

Intention is not as important as what the outcome will be.

As far as I am concerned what is happening with China has been a disaster for the American worker.

I am here to represent the interest of the American workers, not whether or not it benefits the Colombian workers or not.

My motto is free trade between free people, and in this case, Colombia, Panama and South Korea are relatively free countries.

I believe in free trade between free people, and our record in China, including the Chamber's record, has been horrible.

Free trade doesn't work with countries that are run by cliques, by a dictatorship.

It is long time overdue that these free trade agreements haven't been brought to this Congress.

I believe in free trade between free people, but if Mr. Sherman is correct this isn't going to work to the benefit of us and it may work to the benefit of North Korea, a vicious dictatorship.

We have had a trade status quo foisted onto us with China that has cost us almost 3 million jobs.

Intention is the biggest weasel word.

I would think that would be very much against our national interest to permit companies that are really fronts for the People's Liberation Army from coming in and purchasing those mineral rights here in the United States.

It behooves us as Americans and to the benefit of the rest of the world to see that this does not happen, that this control of rare earth minerals does not take place.

Thank God that they have been unsuccessful.

If our country is to survive, we have got to be able to have those building blocks to modern society that will permit our people to have a decent standard of living.

I hope this panel today and your leadership will provide us a method of getting away from that demonization of people who are trying to do an efficient job of providing us with these resources.

We just gave them $500 million and now they are going bankrupt. Well, that is $500 million that now has evaporated from being able to create real jobs someplace else.

What is the crisis that makes you move up the deadline at the cost of hundreds of millions of dollars to the American people?

We are going to waste hundreds of millions of dollars that could be used to actually buy the--make the capital investments that would cause real progress in the future.

This action by the EPA is being rushed onto us.

But I would hope you would be as concerned about the other people who are losing hundreds of millions of dollars in jobs because... of actions of the EPA and perhaps we will see who gets special favors.

Most of the kids in California believe that the air pollution level right now in California is so much worse than it was when I went to high school, and I ask them that every single time. The fact is it is just the opposite. We have made…

But here we are in the aftermath of an actual case in California where $500 million was given by this Administration to a solar panel company that then went bankrupt, again evaporating hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.