Mark Udall: “The United States has been, is today, and will always need to be a maritime power.”

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

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.

We are grateful to Senators Udall and Barrasso as well as the bipartisan co-sponsors of S. 2440.

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