Raúl Grijalva

Today, the Majority will once again try to make its case for weakening the National Environmental Policy Act.

NEPA has helped make that economic development more sustainable, more just, and less wasteful.

Blaming NEPA for uncovering bad projects is like blaming a tumor on the x-ray that discovered it.

The Majority will once again try to make its case for weakening the National Environmental Policy Act.

The beauty of NEPA is that it is already modern and it is already flexible.

If the Oversight Board's proposals... are adopted... they would effectively undermine the government's disaster recovery efforts.

It should have dealt with the great needs that the people there have, how we respond to the disaster.

The silence by my Republican colleagues about the performance of the President and his Administration in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands is an endorsement of it.

I don't think it's too much to ask to make sure Americans are safe before trying to expand Federal power over them.

In the wake of Hurricane Maria, advocates in Puerto Rico and for Puerto Rico are making the case that that devastation means that the 79 percent should be taken up all the way to possibly full debt cancellation.

I hope my Republican colleagues will join me in getting resources to the people who need them most.

The American people in Puerto Rico are counting on us to help rebuild the island, starting with the basics.

Puerto Rico does not need a lecture. They don't need advice. Puerto Rico needs our help!

Our response to human suffering has to be about food, shelter, and water first, not deregulation or politics.

If a man is drowning in the ocean, you don't stop to tell him he should take swimming lessons. If a woman is having a heart attack, you don't take time to preach to her about the value of a low-fat, gluten-free diet. Instead, you act…

Yourself, and the Members that have gone to Puerto Rico, have been on the ground, and have firsthand experience and observations about the urgency and the need for this Congress to respond in a proactive and transparent way, and in a way…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New Mexico will be postponed.

This amendment would not resolve the issue that my friend from New Mexico has just brought up. The Statement of Administrative Policy from the executive branch raises the concerns of H.R. 2936 and of the land management reforms, which are…

This amendment doubles down on the bad ideas that are in the underlying bill. The 150,000 acre categorical exclusion to remove timber from Gila, Lincoln, and Cibola National Forests has the potential to do more harm than good, and cuts the…

As we have talked about H.R. 2936, this is something that has been before two previous Congresses and went nowhere; and as a consequence, we continue to not confront the issue of appropriate and necessary funding for the Forest Service to…

May I inquire how much time is remaining on both sides. The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Williams). The gentleman from Arizona has 3 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Utah has 5 minutes remaining.

The Trump-Zinke plan to roll back sage-grouse protections will only hurt the West.

The science also shows that grazing will not stop fires under very hot and dry conditions, just as those being experienced more and more in our West as a result of climate change.

Let's talk about the real facts that are grounded in science, and put aside the 'alternative facts' grounded in nothing more than the hope that nobody is really paying attention.

People know that the corresponding effort to conserve sage-grouse and sagebrush habitat without an ESA listing was highly inclusive and transparent.