05/22/2019
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"It is long past time for the BLM to modernize these out-of-date regulations."
"The Hard Rock Mining Reform and Reclamation Act that Ranking Member Grijalva and I introduced earlier this year would make a number of reforms to the Mining Law of 1872."
"I just want to say that I found this discussion fascinating, about some of the issues around mining in the United States, but this is not germane to the topic of this bill."
"What this bill does is eviscerate that definition, and says that all minerals now meet that definition, which I think is really not appropriate."