Jared Huffman: “I claim the time in opposition to the amendment. The CHAIR. The gentleman from California is recognized for 5 minutes.”

Mr. Chairman, we have heard over and over again in this debate that this bill is not about lowering environmental standards. This is another one of those rather remarkable inversions, when you actually look at what the bill does. Entire…

They looked past the religious elements of the insurrection and the country kind of went back to sleep.

Mr. Speaker, this bill is another unnecessary giveaway to the mining industry. It lets literally anyone, including foreign mining companies controlled by our adversaries, claim as much of our Nation's public land as they want for next to…

It’s a huge challenge I face in getting my colleagues in Congress to be interested in protecting church-state separation against this movement.