Innovation is a powerful concept if something is needed so well in this particular industry.

I am so proud to sit next to my good friend Blake Moore. He has been a fierce champion for Utah's unique ecosystem.

I have been blessed the last 10 years to be a Utahan, and I cannot say enough.

Thank you again, Chairman Smith, for coming to this beautiful Salt Lake City and for this important field hearing today.

You are saying to build EVs and using child labor is saving American lives?

My concern right now is EVs are dependent on Congo, the cobalt that is produced in these mines.

How does the administration justify the use of taxpayers' subsidy for this type of environment in which so many children are being used for labor?

We are now representing what the cotton gin represented back 200 years ago.

Utah is the most innovative. We come under budget, we balance our budget. So, continue to use us as an example for the rest of the country.

And I fear that we are repeating a mistake that we made in the past when we led a worldwide blind eye to man's inhumanity to man.

I want to kind of touch upon it, was the statement that this push towards electric vehicles, even though there is a cost of slave labor.