"So they cannot make a decision on those. That has to wait."
"So help me understand. What's different about--why is this memo needed then if this is exactly the same as it has been in the past?"
"So can a field office make a decision on a right-of-way now?"
"But the field office may not make a decision without DC actually signing off on it. Is that correct?"
"There is not a sign-off, but it's a don't make a decision until we tell you."
"it is exceptionally beneficial to us to not be dependent on a communist nation like China for our rare earths"
"They do forced abortions on individuals and limit the number of children that families can have."
"I have to tell you, in this day and age I am amazed at the number of American companies that are still looking to China to do manufacturing, after all the intellectual property that they have stolen, ..."
"If China claims that it is a co-equal partner in the global community with the United States, it needs to treat itself like one at the WTO."
"All of those things are common in China, not to mention the prison camps of the Uyghurs and the multitude of other issues that they have done, as we have talked about, economically, today."
"They limit free access to faith, free access to a free press, free access to assembly."