Raúl Grijalva: “I would like to begin with a quote from a book written by one of our witnesses today.”

We urge Congress to reject legislative proposals that make this colonial-era law worse.

This amendment says that this act cannot take effect until the Secretary certifies that the Bureau of Land Management and other Federal permitting agencies have sufficient staff and funding to actually comply with the deadlines established…

I would urge Secretary Mayorkas and the Office of Inspector General at the Department of Homeland Security to have these agents investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigations.

My bill, the Clean Energy Mineral Reform Act, would do just that.