Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Each step along the way, someone is taking a cut.

Before you know it, you are paying your rent check on a medication that you need to save your life.

I guarantee that you are very likely to be driving an electric vehicle in the next several decades whether you want to or not.

Whether or not you like it, whether or not you support it politically, it is happening.

I really take offense at the characterization that somehow this is like forcing it upon consumers and the American economy.

The United States is running concentration camps on our Southern Border, and that is exactly what they are--they are concentration camps.

The political football of restricting and banning companies from moving mining projects forward must end.

We thank Congressman Stauber for introducing House Concurrent Resolution 34 to follow Section 204(c) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 and nullify the withdrawal.

We thank Congressman Pete Stauber for bringing the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources field hearing to the Iron Range.

The U.S. should work with allies around the world to ramp up international production

Our clean energy future is not an excuse to extend mining industry destruction even further.

The mining industry needs certainty--well this is certainty, the Boundary Waters watershed is off limits.

There was no testimony from any of the 70 percent of Minnesotans who are in favor of Boundary Waters protections.

The Majority held a field hearing in Minnesota... to discuss mining.

Their priority isn't science or protecting communities--their priority is putting the polluting industry above all.

The decision to protect the Boundary Waters region from mining for the next 20 years.

The science is overwhelming. It has been peer reviewed, it has been published.

I think this is important, and relevant connections that should be clearly communicated.

I would like to submit to the record here an article from the Star Tribune citing that 74 percent of Minnesota Power's energy does not go to Minnesotans.

I think it is important for us to have clarity. I am not sure why that detail was excluded. I think it is highly relevant present experience that should be disclosed.

The Forest Service concluded sulfide ore copper mining could result in, and I quote, 'extreme, serious, and irreparable harm' in the watershed of this wilderness area.

The Boundary Waters supports a thriving outdoor recreation economy with hundreds of thousands of annual visitors and tens of thousands of jobs across northeastern Minnesota.

These corporations can do this because, as we see today, the private sector has captured influence in many areas of our government.

Today, before this Committee we are considering a mining project that has already been rejected through scientific review.

Rather than rehashing a settled score, I hope we can instead work together to reform the future of mining to make it more sustainable, modern, and predictable.