Raúl Grijalva: “It creates a balance. It is a necessary balance.”

This bill is not just a give-away to the mining industry. It is a wholesale giveaway of our public lands.

The bill gives anyone the ability to stake a mining claim, whether there are valuable minerals on the land or not.

You hear repeatedly in this Congress and in this Committee of the dire dangers being presented at the southern border of this nation with fentanyl, human trafficking, organized crime, cartels...

This imbalance of power has resulted in over a century of ongoing toxic mines, scarring our landscape and poisoning our communities.