•      "The Biden Administration’s decision to enact its illegal mining ban in Northern Minnesota was not only an attack on our way of life and cost countless good-paying, union jobs, it also put our nation’s mineral security at risk. By locking up the Duluth Complex—the world’s largest untapped copper-nickel deposit—President Biden cemented our nation’s reliance on foreign adversarial nations like China for critical minerals that will be necessary for the United States to compete and win in the 21st Century. I am proud to stand with the hardworking men and women of Northern Minnesota and protect our region’s way of life and our rich, 145-year mining history." Source: Rep. Pete Strauber (Republican, Minnesota, District 8)

•      "In January 2023, the Biden Department of Interior (DOI) published a Public Land Order (PLO) essentially putting in place a 20-year ban on mining and other responsible resource extraction across 225,504 acres in the Superior National Forest in Northern Minnesota. PLO 7917 included a significant section of the Duluth Complex – one of the largest untapped mineral deposits in the world, containing 8 billion tons of copper and nickel as well as cobalt and platinum metal groups. By blocking access to America’s abundant natural resources, anti-American development policies forced us to be more dependent on foreign adversaries like China for critical minerals and threaten America’s competitive edge in the 21st century." Source: Rep. Steve Scalise (Republican, Louisiana, District 1), Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives