Raúl Grijalva: “I encourage the committee to hold a hearing on this bill.”

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

Wildlife trafficking and illegal logging facilitate instability in a country.

I look forward to working with you, Madam Chair, and the other members of the Subcommittee to move this bipartisan bill in a similar bipartisan manner.

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.