Raúl Grijalva: “I join with the ranking member to urge adoption of the legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time.”

The passage of single-tribe legislation will inevitably diminish the political will to achieve additional Carcieri fixes.

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.

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

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