I am truly amazed that you have gotten to the point that you have gotten, and you are to be congratulated.

Our standard of living requires us to generate and consume a significant amount of energy, and that energy must be produced somewhere.

Rare earth production is one of those opportunities.

I understand that that is probably a politically correct position to take.

In my view, the most important issue for Congress to address is the bureaucratic delays faced by those who wish to develop our domestic production capabilities.

Your reading is correct.

If that same thing happened between the United States and China... and they cut us off--what is that going to do to your business?

This is an issue that is something that deserves the attention of the U.S. Congress.

there really is no market. I mean, there is a monopoly today.

We will not see significant progress on clean energy technologies until we are serious about the production of the minerals used to produce them.

I think greater attention needs to be given to it.

It seems that Congress doesn't spend nearly enough time in its oversight role because of the reach and the breadth of everything that Congress undertakes these days.