"I want to also thank my colleague and good friend from the great state of Alaska, Representative Peltola, for her leadership in introducing this legislation."
"Following his passing last year, I was honored to assume first sponsorship of the bill, and I did not hesitate to co-sponsor the legislation when Representative Peltola asked me to do so earlier this ..."
"Thank you very much. I first want to recognize and thank both Chairmen Graves, Ranking Member Larsen, and Ranking Member Cohen for their leadership to get this bill not only through this committee, bu..."
"It is frustrating that we have great leadership on this committee in a bipartisan fashion pushing an important reauthorization bill, and the Senate sits on it for 5 months."
"This bill takes care of the workers above and below the wings, which are so important--they have to work together."
"In the House-passed FAA reauthorization bill, we tripled authorized funding for the FAA Section 625 Aviation Workforce Development Program."
"It is abundantly clear that critical minerals will be the most important global commodity of the 21st century."
"Without action from the United States, China is set to have the same leverage and power over us that OPEC nations had during the height of the oil crisis in the 1970's."
"The United States has the opportunity to not only be critical mineral independent but critical mineral dominant as well."
"Quite frankly, this Administration has done nothing to promote domestic mining and has actually taken action to shut down our domestic mining industry and increase our reliance on China."
"Did everybody hear that? Readiness from the United States would be in danger."
"I am proud to introduce the bipartisan Alaska's Right to Produce Act of 2023, which reverses the Biden administration's recent actions that seek to put an end to oil and gas production in the Arctic N..."