Raúl Grijalva

The Department of the Interior (DOI) strongly opposes any action to reverse the locally driven efforts to protect and conserve this critically important and fragile landscape.

The fact remains that thinking ahead, special places, and intended and unintended consequences should be the drive in this decision.

I would just like to enter into the record the statement for the record from the Department of the Interior in opposition to House Resolution 34, strongly opposing any action to reverse the locally-driven efforts to protect and conserve…

I strongly support modernizing and reforming the 1872 Hardrock Mining Act.

I am glad the Biden administration withdrew it. I am glad they are following the science.

As long as that law maintains where no royalties are paid, I don't care if the company is foreign, like in this case, Chilean, I don't care.

What is good for the goose sometimes has to be good for the gander, as well.

And our clean energy future should not be an excuse to extend mining industries' control and destruction even further.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member Ocasio-Cortez.

Our clean energy future should not be an excuse to extend mining industries' control and destruction even further.

I have introduced H.R. 630, the Urban Indian Health Confer Act, to create a Department-wide confer policy with urban Indian organizations.

And the factors that are really needed right now to continue the ongoing work and to scale up?

I would implore USDA and your agency to conduct effective, meaningful consultations with the tribes in Arizona.

If projections are accurate--and I believe they are--in terms of what the recently-passed budget on the part of the Majority, the Republican Majority, here in the House, what impact would that resource issue that seems to be central to the…

I hope that as the Committee moves forward on this legislation, we are able to do it in a truly bipartisan manner.

I am a little bit puzzled. Under Republicans' own House Rules, any new program or funding has to be offset by cutting a program or funding elsewhere.

When President Clinton designated the Giant Sequoia National Monument over 20 years ago, he said, and I quote, 'We are here because we recognize that these trees, though they live to be very old and grow very large, like life itself, are…

It is encouraging to see so much attention, passion, and effort to preserve native plants and protect our public lands from the worst effects of climate change.

I again want to recognize Speaker McCarthy and Representative Peters, who are co-leads of the legislation, who are about as passionate about giant sequoias as I am and many others in this room are.

Thank you very much.

I thank the gentleman for yielding time. Mr. Speaker, the default on America act is foolish. It is harmful. It is a harmful piece of legislation offered to appease the Republican Party's most extreme fringe. The Republicans' plan to handle…

Last week, Madam Secretary, I stood alongside tribal representatives of the Grand Canyon Tribal Coalition as they renewed a long-standing campaign to permanently protect their Grand Canyon homelands.

Attacks on this investment are misguided, they are misplaced, and we should treat this public unit as we do with any shared heritage of history in the Parks Service

Hollowing out Federal agencies is a critical component of the MAGA Republican signature playbook.

I want to acknowledge you and the colleagues on this Committee on your side on the aisle.