"The Great American Outdoors Act solved that."
"So critical minerals. Boy, it seems to be in the discussion on everyone's lips. So the way I look at it, I am all of the above, but it has to be affordable, reliable, and abundant."
"So this is what I hear around my district: Glacier Park rationing."
"It seems before we jump in this arena, and I think it is a mega trend. I think we are moving towards that, but before we do, I would, you know, get with your staff and figure out what is the plan."
"We want to work with you and make sure you have the tools necessary to go after, and the goals are the same."
"I was disappointed to see that the President's budget request proposed to zero out the funding for the Rural Water Technical Assistance grants."
"If you don't hook a kid by--the statistics were compelling. If you don't hook a young adult by the time he is 14 or so, you know, they don't develop the deep love for the land."
"Eisenhower talked about the military industrial complex, and now we have firefighting industrial complex."
"Are you aware that China controls, by proxy production, the supply chain of critical minerals that are critical to both the EV world and defense?"
"And also these mills, we have to guarantee them, to a degree, enough material so they can survive."
"I have told the Secretary of Energy not to cave that in because we are going to need a place to store the 52 or 53 Academy of Science studies that have been done on that."