Raúl Grijalva: “I have a letter here from a BIA regional office telling tribal leaders in my own district that the Department is closing…”

The passage of this legislation would also set a dangerous precedent for sacred sites.

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.

I will state that nobody should ever be denied basic healthcare, period. No one is better off when people are forced to receive healthcare in emergency rooms or receive a later stage diagnosis because of lack of preventive care and seeing…

The bill gives anyone the ability to stake a mining claim, whether there are valuable minerals on the land or not.