Raúl Grijalva: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman.”

The 1872 Mining Law is an outdated law that has failed to protect communities like mine.

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

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

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…