Raúl Grijalva

Vital, vital discussion that your committee is not overlooking, and we all appreciate that.

It's essential from both a practical and moral perspective that, moving forward, Tribes play a significant role in the management and decision-making process for the Colorado River.

It is essential, from both the practical and moral perspective, that, moving forward, tribes play a significant role in the management and decision-making process on the Colorado River.

Their plan lacked transparency and stringent contract monitoring and oversight requirements.

My primary goal was to determine the best way to guarantee that PREPA can be rebuilt.

I am hopeful that many of them can be answered today from our diverse group of witnesses.

However, we must first and foremost provide the people of Puerto Rico NOW an energy supply that is affordable to the consumer, reliable for both base loads and peak loads.

We support having community renewables and distributed generation microgrids in Puerto Rico's recovery: these are tools for resiliency and self-reliance.

The people of Puerto Rico want their power to be on, today, the cost to stop rising, and accountability for what happens.

My amendment will direct $4,000,000 within the International Border and Water Commission to clarify the responsibility for the operations and maintenance of the International Outfall Interceptor (IOI). This is in addition to, and separate…

We have a tremendous opportunity with the budget, infrastructure, and reconciliation processes that are happening now to make an investment in water and in our communities.

We need to ensure--which will take our work, here in Congress--that we change the operations of our water management systems to take climate change into consideration.

We need significant investments in our crumbling dams, irrigation infrastructure, acequias, and the restoration of our precious ecosystems.

Do you think there is enough investment within the budget that you are proposing to deal with this extreme weather?

I appreciate the investments.

I couldn't agree more.

I really appreciate the testimony and the timing of this hearing.

I think tribes and Indigenous folk are ahead of us, in terms of how they see sovereignty.

I want to associate myself with the comments Ms. Stansbury made regarding climate change.

There is little evidence that there is any progress being made on those negotiations.

These compacts are up for renegotiation right now.

We need to assess whether the Office of Native Hawaiian Relations within the Department is functioning correctly for the next century.

I believe that the DOI has been chronically underfunded for a long, long time.

I completely support the President's budget request.

Compassion, not the pursuit of a quick buck, is what defines this country at its best.