Raúl Grijalva: “Science needs to guide us, fact needs to guide us, because we are dealing with elements in our jurisdiction that demand…”

I would urge Secretary Mayorkas and the Office of Inspector General at the Department of Homeland Security to have these agents investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigations.

This amendment says that this act cannot take effect until the Secretary certifies that the Bureau of Land Management and other Federal permitting agencies have sufficient staff and funding to actually comply with the deadlines established…

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