Mike Braun actually said...

"Much of it, I've observed, business has expected our school systems to spit it out."

"Critical minerals have been regarded as the building blocks of U.S. economic and national security."

"Sounds like we ought to be doing better at that, especially when we're wanting to be so involved in new ways of energizing stuff that's going to involve critical minerals."

"How much has government policy been a factor in making it more or less difficult?"