John Hoeven actually said...

"This is a very timely hearing. Thank you for doing it."

"Are there things then that we should be doing from a policy standpoint to promote mining those minerals here rather than importing our entire use?"

"Madam Chairman, it really is a rubix cube, isn't it?"

"That is pretty sobering, isn't it, when you say it is seven years in the best case for needed energy, to move energy around the country."