Political Quotes

“I am prepared to close, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, the chairman and I have had a wonderful working relationship during our time on the Committee on Energy and Commerce. I understand where he is headed with this. I just wish some of the things had been agreed to in a bipartisan way and the committee would have held firm as we moved forward with energy legislation. Everybody has got to do it their own way. I always figured that if I could come out of the House with a 300- or 400-vote margin and a big bipartisan push, we would have a lot more leverage with our friends in the Senate, regardless of who controlled the Senate. But a different path has been chosen here. Part of what we are concerned about on the Republican side is this supply chain vulnerability. And what we are arguing here is that we have witnessed what happens when we have a supply chain vulnerability during this pandemic. In fact, the very face mask that we are wearing-- this one, actually, my wife made--we couldn't get because China locked it down. We have seen that play out. Heck, you couldn't even get toilet paper and paper towels. Now that wasn't necessarily a China problem, but supply chains matter. Reliability on supply chains matters. And we have, as a country, locked up access to many of our areas on mining where you would get critical minerals. And we have relied on other countries and now, principally, China for our critical mineral supply chain.…”