If this is going to be our last meeting as a Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, I want to thank you for your leadership and your fairness at these hearings.

This is an unserious bill. Clearly, Democrats need to toss a bone to their most radical, anti-American energy supporters.

Today, we are holding a legislative hearing on recently introduced legislation that triples down on the Democrat policies that sent energy prices sky-high for Americans.

It is hard to believe that this is likely our last Energy and Mineral Resources hearing before November.

Why should rural Minnesotans have to wait for engineers from Silicon Valley to come fix a product they would happily fix themselves if given the chance?

We need to mine in the United States so we hold the destiny in the palm of our own hands.

This administration doesn't understand. We can remove ourselves from child slave labor by mining in the United States.

In October of 2020, then-candidate Joe Biden said to the American people we are going to mine these minerals domestically.

We have to have an administration that has the political will to do it, and it doesn't.

Recently, a grassroots group of servicemembers created a survey called the ``Congressional Survey of Accountability, Truth, and Freedom.'' The survey includes over 60 pages of testimony from nearly 600 servicemembers describing the…

I can answer that for you. It is $201 billion of additional regulations that you put on small business. That is just unacceptable.

We are seeing that WOTUS is one rule that is definitely disastrous for farmers and small businesses.

I think you have a very tough job to try and defend this disastrous administration with the inflation and materials, increase in materials pricing for small businesses that are being devastated today.

One of the things that I hear from small businesses back home, again, as I said, the regulations and the frustrations of government interference, and to me it is unacceptable having been a small business owner myself for 31 years.

The vote closed prior to me being able to vote. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 270. members recorded pursuant to house resolution 8, 117th congress Amodei (Balderson) Brooks (Weber (TX)) Bustos (Mrvan)…

It does not have to be this way. We can bring gas prices down with Republican solutions. As the ranking member of the Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee, I call on my colleagues in this body today to do the right thing and vote for…

Therefore, I regret that my ESA Flexibility Act was not accepted as an amendment, but I look forward to the eventual passage of the ESA Flexibility Act into law.

You cannot continue to punish the small businesses across this country.

They carry the iron ore that makes 80-plus percent of America's steel.

Rail safety is ever present both in those communities that have rail lines running through them.

Unfortunately, my district and constituents are all too familiar with unsafe roads and avoidable traffic incidents.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, thanks to this administration's bad policies, small businesses are struggling with skyrocketing inflation, record-high gas prices, and supply chain and labor crises. It is imperative that…

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you, Ranking Member Luetkemeyer, for holding this meeting.

We need mining in America.

The Democrats know it. That's why they've embarked on an aggressive rebrand.