Raúl Grijalva: “Since we heard from one of the witnesses the very fate of the Nation rests with the passage of this legislation.”

The mining industry, however, sits above all of that.

I would urge Secretary Mayorkas and the Office of Inspector General at the Department of Homeland Security to have these agents investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigations.

This amendment says that this act cannot take effect until the Secretary certifies that the Bureau of Land Management and other Federal permitting agencies have sufficient staff and funding to actually comply with the deadlines established…

We cannot have meaningful tribal consultations as long as the mining industry has the automatic right to mine wherever they stake a claim.