Bill speeds up mining permits on public lands.
H.R. 4090 — Critical Mineral Dominance Act · Filed by Pete Stauber (R-MN) · 2 cosponsors · Introduced Jun 23, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill tells the Interior Department to approve mining projects faster. It requires lists of lands that can be mined. It removes steps that check if mining harms water. Mining companies get permits without environmental review or public input.
Who it affects
Mining companies gain faster permits. People near mines, tribes, and land groups lose chances to speak up. The public loses time to review mining plans.
One thing to notice
The bill lets the agency skip environmental review before approving mines. It does not say which rules must be dropped.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
2 cosponsors: 2 Republicans.
- Jun 23, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jun 23, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Natural Resources and Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources”
- Sep 3, 2025 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Subcommittee Hearings Held”
- Sep 17, 2025 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Sep 17, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 26 - 16”
- Feb 4, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 224 - 195 (Roll no. 55).”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
4 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 6 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $1,910,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 9 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 72% of bills with any report.
Pete Stauber, who sponsored the bill, received $954,374 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (nreca) — $980,000 in 1 report
- National Mining Association — $820,000 in 1 report
- Earthworks — $80,000 in 2 reports
- American Exploration & Mining Association — $30,000 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- permit — Official approval from the agency to start a mine.
- environmental review — A study of how a project will affect land and water.
- public lands — Land owned by the U.S. and shared by all people.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (8,258 characters) on Jul 6, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,522 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-21.
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