Raúl Grijalva: “The Interior Department you inherited had been purposely and systematically gutted, demoralized, and diminished.”

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.

Mining is considered the highest and best use of our public lands.

One thing came out of this was good. I quit smoking.

We stand at the edge of a whole new mining rush.