Raúl Grijalva: “Yes, national landscape conservation system. Last year the Majority attempted to zero out the funding for this project.”

This bill would address the long-standing inequities caused by the U.S. Supreme Court's 2009 decision in Carcieri v. Salazar.

You are hearing that correctly. Any American, or notably, any American subsidiary of a foreign company could have the exclusive rights to our public lands for about $10 per acre per year.

This imbalance of power has resulted in over a century of ongoing toxic mines, scarring our landscape and poisoning our communities.

The passage of single-tribe legislation will inevitably diminish the political will to achieve additional Carcieri fixes.