I introduced the Hardrock Mining Reform and Reclamation Act.

Rather than repeat what the chairman of the subcommittee just indicated on H.R. 2223, let me just say that the exchange eliminates a large private inholding in the National Forest and removes the need for the Federal land management of the…

Did EPA treat itself any differently here than it would have treated a private company in the same position? That is the question.

The affected Native nations' issue, that they have legitimately raised, is the issue of notification--rapid and on-time notification as to what was occurring and the effect that it could have on tribal lands and their people.

I rise this evening to talk about the Land and Water Conservation Fund, our Nation's most important conservation and outdoor recreation program. For more than 50 years, the Land and Water Conservation Fund has conserved our Nation's most…

After September 30, the authorization for the Land and Water Conservation Fund expires. That date is a looming date for the Republican leadership of this House. With it comes the talk and potential of a government shutdown. Other critical…

This spill imposed real costs on people downstream.

The Hardrock Mining Reform and Reclamation Act has within it a provision that would create a fund for cleaning up of the hundreds of thousands of abandoned hardrock mine sites in the country.

I invite them to join me in trying to reform our 19th century mining laws.

The EPA and the state of Colorado were there to clean up someone else's mess.

It is time to update this outdated relic.

I do not think it happened `now'. This is a pattern, and I think that we need to codify how this notification happens into law.