Thank you, Mr. Chairman. One of the things that Rio Tinto touts, Ms. Krill, part of the panel was about employment.

The decision to trade Federal land, forest land, particularly land that was set aside during the Eisenhower Administration, and withdraw it from mining--to a mining company, a foreign-owned mining company, is likely to impact the human…

H.R. 687 provides no protections to avoid the land from collapsing.

Conflict because of what?

Thank you, Ms. Peralta. I also wanted to ask you. There was a, you know, we get into the discussion, and I appreciate the Supervisor's point that Resolution has not only raised the reading scores in the area but is prepared to spend $16…

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

Proponents of the legislation say, 'We are going to leave the surface alone, so what is the problem?' And would you please tell them what the problem is going to be down the road, not only in terms of a sacred site, but in terms of the…

Oral statement on H.R. 687

Many of the issues that the detractors of this project will bring up in today's hearing have been addressed in the Congressional record at some point.

But don't be fooled--this land exchange has strong bipartisan support across the State of Arizona.

I think that is a fair comparison.

I couldn't agree more.