This bill is an anti-mining anti-American attack on my district, because many of the mines are on my side and in my district.

This past Monday, the Energy Information Agency reported that domestic uranium production has collapsed.

This dangerous bill threatens both our national security and energy security.

This unnecessary legislation seeks to impose a 1-million-plus acre land grab on the Arizona Strip.

Locking away these resources will cost Arizona and Utah hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenues that will help communities and schools.

H.R. 1373 will harm education revenues, kill jobs, infringe on private property rights, and undermine American energy security.

This fundamentally flawed legislation has existed in one form or another for more than a decade.

There has to be a different way in which to break this argument.

55 percent--55 percent--of the geography of Arizona has been whisked away in a moratorium for mining and anything else.

H.R. 1373, the so-called Grand Canyon Centennial Protection Act, is an anti-mining, anti-American attack on my district.

I thank the Chairman, and thanks for bringing this important issue to the forefront.

Tennessee doesn't need, nor do we desire, the Federal Government's intrusion into our elections.