Raúl Grijalva: “We want our students, no matter who they are or where they are from, to succeed.”

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

I rise today, the proud granddaughter of a bracero, a hardworking Mexican immigrant who came to this country for a better life, and I stand as the proud daughter of a U.S. Congressman, a man who spent his entire life fighting for justice…

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

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.