Jim Risch actually said...

Anybody who thinks this is not important just needs to look back some years ago when the Chinese and the Japanese had a spat and the Chinese just flat cut off Japan's access to this material.

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Risch emphasizes the importance of securing access to critical materials.

07/16/2018

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