Mark Udall: “Have not the Western Governors been working on that challenge? Do they not have a policy now that, at least, is in its…”

What happened at the Gold King Mine is part of a much, much bigger problem.

We're talking about free trade also, right? I mean, this is the intersection of two sets of policies.

The 1872 mining law continues to allow mining corporations to take hard rock minerals from public lands without paying any royalties.

I think Federal lands, which control so much of your State, are really critical, because those are vast rural areas that have virtually no coverage.