Martin Heinrich: “Our nation is home to a vast diversity of tribes, and federal policy should reflect that diversity.”

I come from a mining family. I'm not against every mine everywhere. My dad worked for Anaconda Copper, and my grandfather was a gold miner. But I learned, negotiating with big companies over natural resource damages, that there are smart…

We're very thick in the negotiations right now, and whether or not we could land something before August, I'm not going to speculate.

I want to say, from the bottom of my heart, as somebody who truly believes in the value and the importance of public lands and wilderness: thank you all for protecting this very special place.

“Given this administration’s obsession with development and disposal of public lands, it seems clear that this comment period is really just a ploy to weaken protections for public lands,”