Raúl Grijalva: “For a decade now in southern Arizona, the Rosemont Mine has been a point of opposition by the vast majority of the…”

The 1872 Mining Law is an outdated law that has failed to protect communities like mine.

Mr. Cole's bill would simply restore the Secretary of the Interior's authority to take land into trust for all tribes, regardless of their date of Federal recognition.

This bill would address the long-standing inequities caused by the U.S. Supreme Court's 2009 decision in Carcieri v. Salazar.

My bill, the Clean Energy Mineral Reform Act, would do just that.