Raúl Grijalva: “Mr. Chairman, having visited with Sioux leadership and the folks at the encampment at Standing Rock, a word of both…”

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.

You are hearing that correctly. Any American, or notably, any American subsidiary of a foreign company could have the exclusive rights to our public lands for about $10 per acre per year.

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

We write to express serious concerns about the Mining Clarity Regulatory Act, which represents an unprecedented, de facto giveaway of America's cherished public lands to mining corporations.