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Raúl Grijalva: “I think it was President Ulysses S. Grant who passed the Mining Law of 1872, very liberal and very progressive.”

On the recordMarch 14, 2018
I think it was President Ulysses S. Grant who passed the Mining Law of 1872, very liberal and very progressive.
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Raúl Grijalva
Democratic · Arizona

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Grijalva critiques the outdated Mining Law of 1872 established by Grant.

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