{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://fedorchak.house.gov/media/press-releases/fedorchak-supports-measure-strengthen-domestic-sourcing-critical-minerals", "Fedorchak supports measure to strengthen domestic sourcing of critical minerals", "2026-02-11", "2026", "2026-02", "Republican", "House", "ND", "Julie Fedorchak", "F000482", "fedorchak.house.gov", "fedorchak", "https://fedorchak.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2014 Congresswoman Julie Fedorchak (R-ND) today voted in favor of the Securing America\u2019s Critical Minerals Supply Act, legislation to strengthen domestic sourcing of critical minerals and reduce reliance on foreign adversaries. The bill redefines \u201ccritical energy resource,\u201d and requires the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to continuously assess the security and availability of minerals and incorporate supply-chain risks into federal energy planning.\n\n\u201cAdvanced manufacturing and Artificial Intelligence depend on secure supply chains. When we depend on unstable or adversarial sources for critical minerals, our ability to build, innovate, and compete on the world stage is at risk,\u201d Fedorchak said. \u201cThis legislation identifies supply-chain vulnerabilities and prioritizes domestic production.\u201d\n\nDespite vast domestic natural resources, the United States remains heavily reliant on foreign adversaries for critical energy resources that are essential to our economic and national security:\n\nThe U.S. is 100 percent reliant on imports for 12 critical minerals and 50 percent import reliant on an additional 28 critical minerals.\n\nChina maintains 60 percent of the world\u2019s production of rare earth elements and 90 percent of their global processing capacity.\n\nIn recent years, adversarial nations like China have sought to exploit U.S. vulnerabilities, issuing export bans on key minerals, materials, and resources that are essential to both our manufacturing and defense industry.\n\nThe Securing America\u2019s Critical Minerals Supply Act:\n\nRedefines the term \u201ccritical energy resource\u201d to any energy resource that is essential to the energy sector and energy systems of the United States and the supply chain of which is vulnerable to disruption.\n\nAmends the Department of Energy Organization Act to require the Secretary of Energy to conduct an ongoing assessment of the nation\u2019s supply of critical energy resources, the vulnerability of the critical energy resource supply chains, and the energy security considerations of critical energy resources in the development of energy technologies.\n\nDirects the Secretary to strengthen critical energy resource supply chains by diversifying sourcing and increasing domestic production, refining, and processing of resources.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T17:26:08Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://fedorchak.house.gov/media/press-releases/fedorchak-supports-measure-strengthen-domestic-sourcing-critical-minerals"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4158450067043304, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}