Raúl Grijalva

H.R. 8802 requires the Interior Department and the Forest Service to take the next step in combating climate change.

We initiated the subpoena process for FTI Consulting, which has one of the worst reputations in the business.

The discussion today is not about ending gas and energy access for the American people, but to expose and seek truth in advertising from the gaslighting that Big Oil and Big Gas are doing on the American people through public relations.

I thank Representative Case for the time. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 263, the Big Cat Public Safety Act. The bill is a long-overdue fix to a public safety and animal welfare problem that has been with us for too long. I hear…

Chairman Grijalva called on 'colleagues on both sides of the aisle' to 'heed Justice Gorsuch's urging to honor this nation's promises' to tribes.

This decision is an alarming and unsupported expansion of state power in Indian Country by judicial fiat.

I thank Mrs. Maloney, who is the chair of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, and the LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus for their work and support for the LGBTQI+ Data Inclusion Act. As we celebrate Pride Month and remember the 53rd anniversary…

You can't sugarcoat the reality. You can be bold. And I think this Congress should be bold, step forward, pass this bill, and move it on.

We have a responsibility... to acknowledge it, and with the highest level of respect and candor begin the process of healing and reconciliation.

This legislation that Ms. Davids, and I want to congratulate her as well, is promoting and we all need to support, is about truth.

It is time to set a policy of this dark and atrocious chapter, not to forget it.

And I think the subpoena power is necessary. We are reacting to a public policy.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I want to convey my gratitude to you and the Ranking Member for having this crucial and precedent-setting hearing that we needed to have, and I appreciate that very much.

This bill is long overdue, Madam Chair, and I applaud you, the staff, the Ranking Member.

The Congress must pass H.R. 5444 and establish the Truth and Healing Commission that addresses boarding schools in the United States.

And a reality that we can't deny. We can't erase. We can't rewrite. We just have to expose to begin the process of healing, reconciliation, and understanding.

Thank you for the invitation to tell my story.

Questions Submitted by Representative Grijalva

This Congress must confront our stories and the painful history of boarding schools.

I think we need to be very clear about the taxpayer resources that are being expended here.

Subpoena authority, while it might serve the goal of truth, might be adversarial to the goal of healing.

I think this legislation deserves to be bipartisan.

We need to achieve both of those things to not only right the wrongs of the past, but to try to achieve some kind of healing so that we can emerge together as one society.

The harm that was done to Native American tribes was unfortunately inflicted deliberately with the goal of not only forcing cultural assimilation but also of achieving territorial dispossession.

This bill is in direct conflict with President Biden's call for a reliable domestic mineral supply chain.