Doug LaMalfa: “So please, anybody on the panel that was--you are nodding your head, too--send your thoughts along as I have run myself…”

So, we are hellbent on forcing people into electric cars with minerals and metals that aren't even available.

But it shouldn't require you having to come hat in hand to this place and ask a Congress Member to run a bill so you can purchase a piece of land that might be surplus already to the government.

It just seems, about the only thing that we hear about, in committee, on the floor, is CO2, climate change, all the time--hounded, hounded, hounded.

So, let's shift gears to high-speed rail in California, one of my favorite things to talk about since it is such a boondoggle and a rat hole in my home State.