Raúl Grijalva

Congress must help ensure that the current administration is acting in the best interests of the people.

The American people deserve a government that works together.

These actions paint a picture of a department acting in bad faith.

The Trump administration has declared open war on Congress' constitutional authority to conduct oversight.

I thank the distinguished chairman of the Water, Oceans, and Wildlife Subcommittee for the time and for his longstanding leadership on this issue. And also, I thank the 182 Members of Congress who support H.R. 1146. Mr. Chairman, I rise…

Again, the amendment is not necessary, and it is an attempt to delay and to put further risk to the Florida Gulf Coast, and I would urge its defeat. More importantly, I think concrete, real policy initiatives to enhance opportunities for…

I thank the gentleman from Florida for his thoughtful and necessary amendment that will restore offshore drilling regulations and that will reduce the risks the Gulf communities face from offshore development. I thank him for that, and I…

As a point of reference, the BP oil spill cost the fishing industry at least, at the minimum, $94.7 million and, at the maximum, $1.6 billion in 2010. I mention that because, you know, oil spills are not necessarily good for fisheries in…

For the record, this bill will not affect LWCF funds at all. All the money for the fund comes from existing oil and gas activities in the central and western Gulf of Mexico. The Land and Water Conservation Fund is credited with the first…

Woman, I yield such time as she may consume to the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Castor), an original cosponsor-- along with Mr. Rooney--of this legislation before us, H.R. 205.

We would be mandating issues in legislation and codifying, mandating the points that the Ranking Member brought up about data sharing.

Salary parity is an impediment to recruitment and retention.

I think there is a great deal of interest on the part of the Committee, and certainly the Chairman and Ranking Member, to have as much information as available from these areas in order to continue to not only be informed but to know what…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. But I think your statement and the statement of the Ranking Member, and the bipartisan approach to accountability with regard to this issue, is enough said.

I think data collection is one of the things that we need to do promptly.

I think we need to look at that.

So, concrete plans of action were proposed or considered during these discussions? Or was it more of an open-ended kind of a discussion?

However, DOI's online press release states that the discussion occurred at Sacaton on June 11.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

Annually, how many of the FBI-referred MMIW cases are prosecutable?

But I think your statement and the statement of the Ranking Member, and the bipartisan approach to accountability with regard to this issue, is enough said.

However, it still remains unclear how many of these discussions occurred.

If relocated, the BLM leadership will become out of touch and rendered ineffective and irrelevant.

In reality, given the lack of transparency, analysis, and consultation this appears to be nothing more than a poorly veiled attempt to dismantle a Federal agency.

Absent a compelling showing of why this reorganization is needed and how it will advance the BLM's capacity to steward the National System of Public Lands for the benefit of all Americans, it seems increasingly clear that the…