Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez actually said...

"This 'Clarity Act' is such a mischievous giveaway of a 'right to occupy public land' that it ought to be called the 'Mining Charity Act.'"

"The approach of this legislation is to simply make all mining claims valid--with or without the discovery of a valuable mineral deposit."

"Interesting. You see, this bill includes extremely broad definitions of what it means to 'use and occupy land' for 'mining-related activities.'"

"Thank you. And if I wanted to file a handful of these claims, known otherwise as 'nuisance claims,' might I be able to potentially extract large sums of money from the Federal Government in exchange f..."