We now have supporters who are well known and connected in Washington, DC, and who state they will assist us in bypassing lower level staffers and getting us face-to-face meetings with Senators.

• Extremist groups are at it again
• No more sales tax on precious metals in Tennessee

• House appropriations bills introduced
• Two Minnesota hardrock mining leases reinstated
• Equal Access to Justice Act

The current administration is receptive; we believe the time is ripe to push for a return to reasonable regulations and to restore mining to a priority for public lands as long as some new crisis doesn’t take precedent.