manchin: now we have senator daines. sen. braun: we want to learn more about how legislation from across the business might hurt your business. we know the house version raises taxes on businesses. it places new royalties on your products and makes it harder for you to support jobs in your communities. mr. brown, if the house get their way and pass this sweeping anti-mining legislation, what would that mean to montana jobs you provide and your ability to mine and supply the united states with bentonite. mr. brown: i would like to highlight that we are a small business, and the president has said that any new tax won't impact small business. the taxes we are talking about, the significant increase in royalties would impact us tremendously. again, our margins are very thin. our ability to absorb an 8% royalty, however that is defined, and other fees that may come on top of that is going to be difficult. it's questionable whether we can pass that to our customers. i believe some of our customers would elect to source their mater