Doug Lamborn

It becomes especially burdensome, where companies end up paying extra to zigzag around public lands.

We can remedy them with more sensible regulatory policy.

We have epidemiological evidence that the Endangered Species Act biops, biological opinions being employed in the Delta, are killing children in the South Valley.

I just find it the height of hypocrisy that environmental extremists want to shut down U.S. energy and mining projects all over the United States.

This is the least intrusive method that exists for large-scale energy production.

Certainty is exactly--what Mr. Loris is talking about--is what is critical.

We just need a much more efficient process to get an up-or-down vote on whether these projects should move forward.

I think it is that they are incredibly inefficient.

From a military standpoint, tellurium is mixed with bismuth to make thermoelectric night vision materials.

We know that China supplies 26 different minerals, of which the United States is over 50 percent import reliant.

In other words, the connection between critical minerals and national security. And that is something I think we should all be aware of.

We need to level the playing field for our corporations to make money and do the right thing.

We have got to do something about that because it's increasingly difficult to get a workforce in on the national security side.

The Biden administration is taking credit for what the Trump administration accomplished.

The Biden Administration has embarked on an agenda of regulatory overreach with extensive new regulations in the works.

It is so important. It is the cornerstone. It is why the cost of everything has gone up so much since we have stopped developing energy.

A NEPA that does not provide opportunity for public comment periods, that doesn't proactively consider alternatives in environments, doesn't consider cumulative impacts, doesn't consult with those who are impacted is a NEPA that does not…

I favor much more strongly the ability, again, to disperse and be mobile and the AI-enabled technologies that support those kinds of missions.

My top priority as chairman of the Strategic Forces Subcommittee is to accelerate our hypersonic capabilities, both offensive and defensive.

I think they are also watching what is happening in Ukraine where Putin, to some degree of success, is having his threats of nuclear--of the use of nuclear weapons have an effect on some of the players there.

I thank the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Carter) for reminding us of what the reason for the season really is. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Clyde).

I thank the gentleman from Georgia for his words. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Carter).

I thank the gentleman for sharing that message from the heart, and I appreciate what the Bible has done in his life. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Allen).

I thank the gentleman for his words. Mr. Grothman mentioned John Adams. I have a great quote here from John Quincy Adams, the younger of the two that became President: ``I speak as a man of the world to the men of the world; and I say to…

I appreciate what the gentleman had to say. Tomorrow will be the 81st anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day. That day has lived in infamy. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Grothman).