Jared Huffman: “This, I believe, is good public policy and ought to move quickly through the committee.”

We cannot mine our way to security with brute force because China controls 80 percent of the world's processing power and nearly 90 percent for rare earth elements. If our only solution is to just have more and more mines and to open up…

there were few people in the Congress that tangled with Doug LaMalfa more than me. There is probably some competition for that honor among House Democrats, but I was certainly right up there. Yet, I can tell you as we honor Doug today, I…

Mr. Speaker, this bill is another unnecessary giveaway to the mining industry. It lets literally anyone, including foreign mining companies controlled by our adversaries, claim as much of our Nation's public land as they want for next to…

Once you siphon off the funds and supplant the real bipartisan commission with this new entity and you declare it the main platform for our nation's celebration, and you award all these shady contracts to your friends, you can do anything…