Ken Salazar: “We have spent a lot of time thinking about ways in which to simplify royalty collections.”

We are incredibly thankful that Chairman Grijalva is championing this issue.

What is being neglected here is the bigger picture. And that's this foreign policy paradigm that is so required for the United States and Mexico and the Americas.

From day one, there should have been a great sense of urgency in addressing the crisis of a broken border and the migration crisis that we are seeing.

We have seen that national security and environmental conservation are mutually supporting goals.