Jared Huffman: “Removing the qualifier 'to the extent practicable' from National Standard 9 is a much-needed change, which will reorient…”

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…

We may not be able to undo the damage they've done to us and the national celebration, but we can do something very patriotic by reminding everyone that our government belongs to all of us, not to Donald Trump.

The one thing we can do is make sure the American people know what they’re doing in our name and with our tax dollars.

Once you siphon off the funds and supplant the real bipartisan commission with this new entity and you declare it the main platform for our nation's celebration, and you award all these shady contracts to your friends, you can do anything…