Ranking Member Markey and Representative Grijalva and I will be introducing legislation that would ensure that large companies extracting minerals belonging to the taxpayer from public lands pay for the privilege of doing so, as they do for oil and gas.
Holt discusses legislation for fair mineral extraction payments.
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