Raúl Grijalva: “All Federal employees, regardless of rank and position, should have and should uphold a high standard of professionalism…”

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

Their bipartisan work to correct the misguided Carcieri ruling demonstrates how Democrats and Republicans can work together on this Subcommittee for Indian Country.

I rise today, the proud granddaughter of a bracero, a hardworking Mexican immigrant who came to this country for a better life, and I stand as the proud daughter of a U.S. Congressman, a man who spent his entire life fighting for justice…

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.