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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I find it hard to believe that leaving these stakeholders out of the conversation was an accidental oversight.

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.

My colleagues say that the mining industry needs certainty--well this is certainty, the Boundary Waters watershed is off limits.