Raúl Grijalva: “I would suggest that before you take my word for it or take the denials as truth, that a formal request from the Chair…”

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

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.

I worry the integrity of the investigations is at risk.

We urge Congress to reject legislative proposals that make this colonial-era law worse.