Raúl Grijalva

Our main priority is for Chemawa to be a safe place for Native students to thrive.

I have been spearheading the Oregon delegation's efforts to shed light on the situation at the school for more than a year and a half.

I have seen no evidence to support this claim.

Can you commit to directing Interior staff to cooperate with the GAO on this matter that would appear to benefit your former client?

The Committee on Natural Resources will now come to order.

An administration set on sacrificing Federal lands and waters on the altar of corporate profits faces a significant challenge.

Secretary Bernhardt testifies today as a cabinet official representing a reckless, destructive, and unethical administration.

The term 'Constitutional Crisis' should not be used lightly, but if we are not in one, we are dangerously close.

For a decade now in southern Arizona, the Rosemont Mine has been a point of opposition by the vast majority of the community.

The issue of reforming the 1872 Mining Law will, no doubt, as this legislation proceeds, be a source of debate.

The people of Puerto Rico--what I heard in my visit there, from anywhere from the people that served us to the people that were working outside, is a level of distrust for government as a whole, including the government that I am a part of.

The recovery was a good lesson for us. And PROMESA was an effort to stabilize and I supported it, that economic stability and fiscal stability is essential.

There is no doubt that statehood would have strengthened Puerto Rico's economy in the same way it has done for all fifty states.

Had Congress acted on the results of those plebiscites, Puerto Rico would today be in the process of completing the transition to become a full-fledged member of the Union.

We have been consistent in our opposition to PROMESA and the actions taken so far by the Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB).

And we have an obligation to try to turn that around.

Residents there still have not received the assistance necessary from the Federal Government to rebuild their community.

Puerto Rico, now more than ever needs certainty and clarity, and the way to start is by changing the current Board members.

I think that we are not dealing with an issue of culture. We are dealing with American citizens that have not had access and equity in terms of how they are treated and how they are respected.

This is why it is necessary to amend PROMESA.

Currently, the Oversight Board is not accountable to anyone--not even Congress--yet it has the final say in the decisions affecting our government.

And the best way to do it is to assure them that they will not continue to be victimized as we go forward with looking at PROMESA, re-establishing the importance of the essential services, and highlighting those going forward.

Difficulties aside, I am optimistic and confident that we can all work together to ensure Puerto Rico's economic future is brighter than ever.

Puerto Rico's future depends on a strong commitment to implement structural reforms that change the Island's underlying economic model.

When we passed PROMESA, I stated that it was not a law I would have written.