Raúl Grijalva: “I think the Land and Water Conservation Fund is one of our most important conservation measures in the United States.”

The mining industry, however, sits above all of that.

I am always pleased that this Committee is as bipartisan as it is in terms of finding solutions and working together for the issues that are presented here.

We stand at the edge of a whole new mining rush.

We cannot have meaningful tribal consultations as long as the mining industry has the automatic right to mine wherever they stake a claim.