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On the recordJuly 16, 2018
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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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho
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Editor's note · Context

Risch emphasizes the importance of securing access to critical materials.

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