Unfortunately, while these two bills will improve our understanding of critical and strategic minerals, other pieces of legislation that we are considering today represent nothing more than huge giveaways to the mining industry and rollbacks of environmental protections for our public lands.
Holt criticizes certain bills as benefiting mining companies at the expense of environmental protections.
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Without that evidence, this bill appears to be a classic example of a solution in search of a problem.
I think it is important to ask really what this is all about, just not get lost in the weeds.
I believe our parks are too precious a resource for us simply to abandon our responsibility in that matter.
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