Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee Issues Opening Statement From Chairman Manchin
November 16, 2021
November 16, 2021
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following opening statement for an Oct. 5, 2021, hearing on the Mining Law of 1872:
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We are here today to begin discussing the Mining Law of 1872, which governs hardrock mining on public lands, and consider ways to bring this outdated law into the 21st century.
To put things in perspective, back in 1872, Ulysses S. Grant w . . .
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We are here today to begin discussing the Mining Law of 1872, which governs hardrock mining on public lands, and consider ways to bring this outdated law into the 21st century.
To put things in perspective, back in 1872, Ulysses S. Grant w . . .