Raúl Grijalva: “When it fails in that duty, it is legally responsible to compensate those affected.”

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

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.

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

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