Raúl Grijalva: “This is another basic, 'We are going to mandate, as in the 1800s, what is best for the Native American tribes.'”

Effective democratic governance depends upon informed public participation, and several international conventions and policy guidelines call for enhanced public participation in environmental management.

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

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