Washington, Jan. 13 -- Representative Ami Bera issued the following press release:
Today, House Foreign Affairs East Asia and Pacific Subcommittee Ranking Member Ami Bera, M.D. (CA-06) and Chair Young Kim (CA-40) introduced the Developing Overseas Mineral Investments and New Allied Networks for Critical Energies (DOMINANCE) Act, bipartisan legislation to strengthen U.S. energy security, reduce reliance on the People's Republic of China (PRC), and build resilient critical minerals supply chains with trusted allies and partners around the world.
Critical minerals are essential to U.S. national security, advanced manufacturing, and next-generation energy technologies. Yet today, the PRC controls roughly 70 percent of global rare earth mining...