But what we have in this industry, in the transportation industry, is we have a Department of Transportation on the Federal level that is being run by someone that is pushing a woke, socialistic, left-wing agenda, and he has no idea what…

I think that was pretty obvious there, Mr. Chairman. No, I am just joking.

The Administration advocates for increased renewables and EV mandates, policies that will certainly speed up demand for the minerals needed to build them.

I hope this policy change was not political, but given this Administration's anti-mining agenda, I am skeptical.

I am once again struck by the hypocrisy of this Administration's policy on domestic mineral production.

We will never get rid of drivers. There is always going to be a place for a driver at some point.

I don't know about you but that is not the America I know. It is not the America that I want to live in.

They think you need to be cut back a notch or two.

the problem is that you have a Federal Government out there that is over-reaching into your life and in your business, a Biden administration that is bent on this left-wing socialistic agenda to change us and to change our country.

I don't know if you all noticed it or not, there is not a single Democrat sitting up here, not a single one of them that will come out here and see you face to face to understand one on one what you are feeling and what you are going…

Oversight is one area that we can really get our message out and put a face on what is going on.

I find it amazing every time we go west they announce that I am from Georgia.