Raúl Grijalva: “The amount of land proposed for this designation is overwhelming--it is the approximate equivalent of the size of the…”

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.

This bill would address the long-standing inequities caused by the U.S. Supreme Court's 2009 decision in Carcieri v. Salazar.

I will state that nobody should ever be denied basic healthcare, period. No one is better off when people are forced to receive healthcare in emergency rooms or receive a later stage diagnosis because of lack of preventive care and seeing…

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