Donald S. Beyer, Jr.: “We need to be looking at meaningful Federal solutions to address abandoned mine lands; we cannot ignore the cause of the…”

Thank you all very much for being here. And I want to thank you for joining me in this vital conversation about the economic cost of shareholder primacy.

We need to lower those costs for U.S. workers and we need to advance economic growth and competitiveness.

Thanks to the efforts of this Congress and the Biden administration, unemployment is down to 3.6 percent.

We cannot let it be that one of the most critical components of so much of our technology is not actually manufactured here in the United States.