Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of my friend Representative Stauber's bill, H.R. 3195, the Superior National Forest Restoration Act. Throughout this Congress, the work of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party has shown what many of us already believed: that the threat of Communist China looms larger than ever before, casting a shadow over our Nation's security and prosperity. As an exile who was forced to leave my native Cuba after the Communist takeover, I understand this threat firsthand. That is why I am urging my colleagues to join me in supporting H.R. 3195, which would reverse the Biden administration's plan to cut off Minnesota's mineral deposits containing 88 percent of America's cobalt and 95 percent of America's nickel. Right now, Congo accounts for 75 percent of the world's cobalt supply. These mines are CCP-owned, Chinese Communist Party-owned, and massive perpetrators of illegal child labor. These minerals are then shipped to Communist China for refining. President Biden is putting America at risk by failing to combat Communist China's subversive tactics, including undermining America's defense industrial base. We must obliterate the CCP's monopoly over rare earth minerals critical to the development of batteries and 21st century technology. H.R. 3195 is an amazing step in reasserting America's industrial might.…”