Grijalva acknowledges the chairman before asking a question.
03/07/2011
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This bill is not just a give-away to the mining industry. It is a wholesale giveaway of our public lands.
The mining industry, however, sits above all of that.
The bill gives anyone the ability to stake a mining claim, whether there are valuable minerals on the land or not.
to merely open the floodgates to the use of our public lands without any protections, due process, community involvement...