"The legislative hearing for the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources will now come to order."
"The Hardrock Mining Law, frankly, in some instances one could argue, withstood the test of time since it was set into law and signed by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1872."
"We wish that for the rest of the country obviously."
"I thank the gentleman from New Mexico."
"I think my questions in the last hearing we had on this, I wanted to try to get some prioritization, in terms of how you triage in terms of those that are in the greatest need of cleanup."
"If we want to become the world leader in lithium battery production, we need to mine more lithium."
"It is very important... that we try to develop a balanced, comprehensive energy policy..."
"I thought most of them were not very thoughtful, both responses."
"we feel confident that we can provide that, so we will."