Raúl Grijalva: “Do you think there is enough investment within the budget that you are proposing to deal with this extreme weather?”

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

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.

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.

The 1872 Mining Law is an outdated law that has failed to protect communities like mine.