Raúl Grijalva: “I don't want to repeat the 1872 law of mining, where we get to do nothing but give mining everything they want.”

The 1872 Mining Law is an outdated law that has failed to protect communities like mine.

Mr. Cole's bill would simply restore the Secretary of the Interior's authority to take land into trust for all tribes, regardless of their date of Federal recognition.

You hear repeatedly in this Congress and in this Committee of the dire dangers being presented at the southern border of this nation with fentanyl, human trafficking, organized crime, cartels...

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.