02/11/2013
https://www.congress.gov...
"Well right now, as most of your products that you use, as far as your product you manufacture, does that come from China?"
"Not when we had an Administration that tried to shut us down completely eight years ago."
"We can produce and we are working on that, 45,000 tons per year. Forty-five thousand tons per year of rare earth elements just from the waste in the mining of what we do for the country."
"China's monopoly in this space is concerning, extremely concerning, to me from both the economic and national security perspectives."