Raúl Grijalva: “The people of Puerto Rico want their power to be on, today, the cost to stop rising, and accountability for what…”

To merely open the floodgates to the use of our public lands without any protections, due process, community involvement... is going back to a time that got us into this situation.

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

The 1872 Mining Law is an outdated law that has failed to protect communities like mine.

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...