I would like to know if the Administration would support a proposal that the Federal Government join every other American and Native American land owner in most other countries in the world in assessing a royalty for the extraction of hardrock minerals.
DeFazio suggests assessing royalties for hardrock mineral extraction to fund cleanup of abandoned mines.
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I think we can be very proud of what we have accomplished, and in good part, generated by this committee.
Senator Tammy Baldwin introduced legislation last Congress that all rail labor unions and shipper groups from a wide array of industries, including the American Chemistry Council (ACC) endorsed.
This was purposely done so federal funding would be directed to frontline workers for our pay and benefits and to prevent growing inequality.
The idiots in the Senate have been unable to approve the Law of the Sea Treaty, so, we don't have full standing to object to Russia continually extending claims further and further into the Arctic region.
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