Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I rise today--Joe has gone over this, I think, very clearly; I support him in just sticking with the letter of the law. He said China produces 75 percent of the world's lithium-ion batteries; we, only 7 percent. China controls 80 percent of the facilities that convert critical minerals into usable battery parts. Making things in America is not just about promoting our own manufacturing--which we need to do better generally--it is also about not funding the human rights abuses by the Chinese Communist Party. And to give them even more of a leg up, when you see what they have done trying to fit into the world economic chain, where they still steal intellectual property, they do things that take them out of the norm that we are all familiar with. This is just simply to fix something that was recently passed in a reconciliation bill. I didn't vote for the reconciliation package because of disagreements with it in general. I do that on a lot of things, even when I like components of what is in something if it doesn't have that fiscal responsibility to go along with it. So whether you agree with me or Senator Manchin about trying to do things here in America whenever we can and not to end up supporting our main geopolitical enemy in the process, I think you have to be careful. Senator Manchin mentioned, also, we just recently did it and it is clear, and the IRS was sleeping at the wheel.…”