Raúl Grijalva: “I commend the Chairman for his work on this issue, and I look forward to working with you as we advance legislation.”

The passage of this legislation would also set a dangerous precedent for sacred sites.

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

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…

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.