Critical Mineral Dominance Act

Floor Speech

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Mr. McCLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, take a good look around you. Everything you see wherever you look, everything that makes your life comfortable, everything that makes your life possible--everything--is either mined, or it is grown. There are no exceptions. Everything you enjoy and depend upon is either mined or grown from the ground. The generation that built our country understood this.

Mr. Speaker, over the chair from which you preside is emblazoned the prayer from Daniel Webster, which reads: ``Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests and see whether we also in our day and generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered.''

Yet, for 50 years, the environmental left has torn down these great achievements and waged war against everything that is mined or grown. They have piled tax upon tax, restriction upon restriction, and regulation upon regulation that have made mining and agriculture increasingly expensive and needlessly scarce.

That is the heart of the affordability crisis. The left has turned abundance into scarcity. Finally, in our day, a new generation is discovering that this self-destructive lunacy is not going to end well.

That brings us to this bill to reduce the regulatory burdens that the left has imposed upon our Nation's ability to prosper and advance. It codifies President Trump's executive orders that identify the resources that we can develop and calls forth the powers of prosperity that those resources promise.

It restores freedom to meet the challenge that Daniel Webster set before us by realigning our institutions on behalf of the American people so that we too can perform something worthy to be remembered, to make America great again.

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