Raúl Grijalva: “All told, our committee has passed scores of bills out of the House, and 149 passed Senate and became law--149.”

Their bipartisan work to correct the misguided Carcieri ruling demonstrates how Democrats and Republicans can work together on this Subcommittee for Indian Country.

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.

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