{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://fulcher.house.gov/2024/09/27/id-79cfa334-4f62-4374-b70d-c15cc6b9bf9d/", "Fulcher Guthrie and Newhouse Introduce Bill to Secure America\u2019s Midstream Critical Materials Supply Chain", "2024-09-27", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "House", "ID", "Russ Fulcher", "F000469", "fulcher.house.gov", "fulcher", "https://fulcher.house.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, September 27th\n\nCONTACT: Christiann\u00e9 Allen, christianne.allen@mail.house.gov\n\nCONTACT: Marisa Melton, marisa.melton@mail.house.gov\n\nFulcher Guthrie and Newhouse Introduce Bill to Secure America\u2019s Midstream Critical Materials Supply Chain\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 Congressman Russ Fulcher (ID-01), Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02), and Congressman Dan Newhouse (WA-04) released the following statements after introducing the Securing America\u2019s Midstream Critical Materials Processing Act, which will establish a National Roadmap to provide a pathway to restore domestic critical material processing facilities away from foreign adversaries like the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and reduce unworkable permitting barriers to help secure our supply chains. Midstream critical material processors are essential to America\u2019s manufacturing and energy future:\n\n\u201cCritical minerals are not only vital to America\u2019s energy supply, but to our national security as they are a key component for defense technologies and weaponry. I am proud to introduce this bill alongside Congressman Guthrie and Newhouse to establish a national roadmap to bring the development and processing of key minerals back to the USA. Securing America\u2019s energy independence starts with securing our critical minerals supply chain,\u201d said Congressman Fulcher.\n\n\u201cToday I was proud to introduce the Securing America\u2019s Midstream Critical Materials Processing Act alongside Congressmen Newhouse and Fulcher to help ensure America has control over its manufacturing and energy future. For too long our nation has been reliant on the CCP and other foreign adversaries for the essential facilities to process critical materials into usable resources for our manufacturing industry. This bill will help provide a pathway to reshoring the processing of critical materials and uncovers the extent to which the CCP has exploited this supply chain. If our nation is to become energy independent once again, secure our supply chains, and reshore job creating industries then we must produce and process our critical materials here at home, I am proud to be leading this bill that will help accomplish this,\u201d said Congressman Guthrie.\n\n\u201cIt is no secret the United States is in a dangerous position with our reliance on adversaries like the CCP for the critical minerals we use in everything from our energy sector to our defense industrial base. This bill is a big step towards bringing critical mineral processing back to our shores and keeping bad actors out of our supply chains. As a member of the House Select Committee on the CCP, I know we as lawmakers need to be doing all we can to prioritize national security before it is too late.\u201d said Congressman Newhouse.\n\nBackground:\n\nThe Securing America\u2019s Midstream Critical Material Processing Act will establish a Dept. of Energy led National Roadmap to reshore domestic critical material processing industry, which will include a comprehensive review of:\n\nCurrent landscape of domestic and global markets for midstream critical material processing\n\nThe extent to which China and other adversaries employ anti-competitive practices to manipulate critical material markets\n\nOpportunities and barriers to reshoring domestic industries, including working alongside allied nations\n\nPermitting challenges facing a domestic critical material processing industry\n\nThis bill requires a Government Accountability Office (GAO) study on how to improve federal permitting to incentivize more investment including:\n\nHow the Inflation Reduction Act may have fueled Chinese greenfield investment in Free Trade Agreement countries\n\nHow EPA regulations and litigation raise costs on facilities\n\nWays to improve federal collaboration and coordination to leverage expertise in critical material processing\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:43:57Z"]], "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://fulcher.house.gov/2024/09/27/id-79cfa334-4f62-4374-b70d-c15cc6b9bf9d/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9960983879864216, "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"}