Ryan Zinke

we will pay any price, we will bear any cost, to ensure the survival and success of liberty and our freedom.

It is about freedom. It is about democracy.

How are you going to be independent if China produces the very components that make up EV?

We seek energy independence. We seek energy dominance, so we are not held hostage by foreign entities.

How are you going to figure this out?

I think I can safely say it is destroying our communities throughout the country.

It seems to me that there are--you know, people live longer, healthier, certainly we do.

Last year 100,000 people died from drug overdoses, largely from fentanyl.

What are we going to do when they are end of lifecycle?

I would like your commitment to also work together with us to find a path through some of these difficult places.

It is not an easy job, and I commend you for taking it on board.

I would just like a pledge from you because I know you are sensitive to the Nations and discriminatory policy over time.

I want to thank you for your service. As a former Secretary, I understand how difficult your task is.

I think is probably good policy, and I would think that issue is bipartisan.

Unless we change the rudder, is that we will be more dependent.

Well, I would suggest that, Mr. Secretary, that you read those two documents.

The concerns I know with this is the concerns I have are supply chain.

So I would ask that, as you look at pilot retention, though, also consider how to make sure our rural pilots are at the beginning of the feeders that are also viewed in your efforts going forward.

How do you get to be energy independent when the components of EV today are all controlled by China?

If fentanyl was COVID, I dare say the administration would have closed down the country until we had a handle on it.

Even Lewis and Clark recognized the Missouri was one the largest of channels in our country. I believe they said it was wider, cleaner, and more powerful. So for the record, clean water does start in Montana.

We need to have a serious discussion about how to do more with less.

Are you also aware that Northern Minnesota is home to those critical minerals that are necessary for EV and our Defense Department?

Is there a plan for a national depository, repository for this material? Or are we just pushing it?

So EV world. We know that Russia, China, and perhaps our adversaries, have the market share of materials, whether it is lithium, whether it is cobalt.