sen. manchin: come to order. we are here to begin discussing the 1872, covering mining on public lands and consider waste to bring this outdated law to the 21st century. to put things in perspective, in 1872, ulysses grant was president & legislation establishing what is now yellowstone national park. as our parts are called americans best idea, but at this point, i don t think anyone would say the same about the mining law. it has been more than 13 years since the committee has held hearings on mining reform and it is time to look at a sensible update to be done it. i know we can pursue mining reform responsibly bearing in mind mining s importance to our national defense and economic security. that includes making sure taxpayers get a fair return on federal resources and we maintain american competitiveness and that we encourage the development of secure, critical supply chains. debates surrounding public lands and natural resources are complicated. i am glad we have this pa
and the cdc issuing its decision on this recently. but even with the progress we ve made so far, we must not take our foot off the gas. last winterer we saw this virus push our hospitals to the brink. saw it infect and kill hundreds of thousands of people including essential workers and healthcare workers and we know it let to burn out among so many more. vaccines are one of our best tools to making sure that does not happen again and making sure we can build back from this pandemic stronger and fairer. in fact as the white house notes in its report on vaccination requirement, an outside economic analysis found that increasing vaccine and reaching near full vaccination in more places could encourage millions of people to return to the workforce. tests also continue to serve a critical role stopping spread concerning our ongoing response which is why we plan to scale up testing even more. in a larger sense we must learn the lessons of this pandemic so we can finally bring a
committee will come to order. we re here today to begin discussing the law of 1872 which governed hard rock mining on public lands and considers ways to bring this outdated law into the 21st century. to put things in perspective, back in 1872, ulysses s. grant was president and established what is now the yellowstone national park. national parks are often called america s best idea, but i don t think anyone would say the same about the mining law from 1872. it s been more than 13 years since this committee has held hearings on mining reform and it s time to look at a sensible update. i know we can pursue mining, bearing in mind our economic security. that includes making sure taxpayers are getting a fair return on these federal resources and we maintain american competitiveness and encourage the development of secure mineral supply chain. debate surrounding our public lands and natural resources are complicated so i m glad we have this panel of experts before us for this dis
industry testified on changes to an 1872 mining law before the senate energy and natural resources committee, this is just over two hours. the meeting will come to order. we are here today to begin discussions the 1872 covering mining on public lands and considering waste to bring this outdated law to the 21st century to put things in perspective. and 1872, ulysses grounds president and legislation establishing what is now yellowstone national park. as our parts are called american best idea, but at this point i don t think anyone would say the same about the mining law. it has been more than 13 years since this committee has held hearings on mining reform, and it is time for us to look at a sensible update to be done. i know we can bear in mind mining is important to our national defense and economic security. that includes making sure taxpayers get a fair return on federal i believe it s important to taxpayers it is true we don t have significant but for the elemen
sen. manchin: come to order. we are here to begin discussing the 1872, covering mining on public lands and consider waste to bring this outdated law to the 21st century. to put things in perspective, in 1872, ulysses grant was president & legislation establishing what is now yellowstone national park. as our parts are called americans best idea, but at this point, i don t think anyone would say the same about the mining law. it has been more than 13 years since the committee has held hearings on mining reform and it is time to look at a sensible update to be done it. i know we can pursue mining reform responsibly bearing in mind mining s importance to our national defense and economic security. that includes making sure taxpayers get a fair return on federal resources and we maintain american competitiveness and that we encourage the development of secure, critical supply chains. debates surrounding public lands and natural resources are complicated. i am glad we have this pa