Raúl Grijalva: “H.R. 215 overrides the Endangered Species Act and reinstates the Trump administration's blatantly unlawful biological…”

The passage of single-tribe legislation will inevitably diminish the political will to achieve additional Carcieri fixes.

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.

I rise today, the proud granddaughter of a bracero, a hardworking Mexican immigrant who came to this country for a better life, and I stand as the proud daughter of a U.S. Congressman, a man who spent his entire life fighting for justice…

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