02/11/2019
https://congress.gov...
"It is long past time to comprehensively reform the Mining Law of 1872."
"the West has developed. We don't need to continue to do that any longer."
"the hardrock mining industry has no less of a responsibility than the coal industry."
"I think it was President Ulysses S. Grant who passed the Mining Law of 1872, very liberal and very progressive."