Raúl Grijalva

Ending the ability to work legally in this country for these DACA recipients... their contribution is $460.3 billion and about $25 billion in taxes to Social Security and Medicare.

Let me remind, the point of the amendment is that the money, the $37.5 million, and also the decision by the local residents to purchase the hovercraft, that was not mandated by the Federal Government. It was their decision, again with…

Acknowledging that I am running the risk of being uppity on this particular amendment, but thankfully never smug, I rise in support of my amendment to H.R. 218, the King Cove Road Land Exchange Act. My amendment simply requires the State…

We are not saying that the residents of King Cove do not deserve reliable transportation options, and neither did the EIS. The EIS included an analysis of nonroad transportation options that would piggyback off the $37.5 million Congress…

We have heard the argument, and we will repeatedly hear the argument that the road connecting King Cove to Cold Bay is needed for health and safety purposes. While it is true that the road will be used for medical emergencies, there is a…

Today we are being asked to mandate a land exchange that will put a road through a designated wilderness area inside the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. If that sounds familiar, that is because we have been down this road…

We appreciate your efforts and our efforts to return power to the states and people.

This despicable activity may become commonplace across the United States.

I remain committed to finding common-sense solutions to actually move this forward in a real bipartisan action

The only path toward Republicans and Democrats coming together in this Committee to stop the political posturing

I see the Endangered Species Act akin to a government program like Medicaid that promotes health care to the most vulnerable amongst us.

It is indeed a great pleasure to welcome a new member on our side of the aisle, Representative Jimmy Gomez.

Once the gray wolf is delisted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources' plan will be reinstated.

It is imperative Congress act without delay to pass this important legislation.

Thank you for holding a hearing on H.R. 424. If you have any questions on the impacts of wolves to agriculture in Minnesota, I would be happy to answer them.

The gray wolf has recovered in Minnesota by all reasonable measures.

The purpose of the ESA is to recover species that are threatened with extinction: the Act clearly lays out the appropriate path to take after a species has recovered.

What these bills ignore is that protecting fish and wildlife is not just a good idea in principle, but good for the economy and for people as well.

The Endangered Species Act has long been one of our most successful and broadly supported conservation laws.

The bottom line is that the ESA has worked, and has remained untouched for more than 40 years.

We have a moral duty to preserve for future generations the ability to discover how species can benefit them.

Claims that complying with the ESA kills jobs or impedes economic growth are simply not grounded in reality.

The ESA does not need congressional meddling to work better. What it needs is congressional support.

These bills are an embarrassment and a waste of time.

For Members of this 115th Congress to declare that we should get to decide which species live or die for all time is, quite frankly, arrogant and shameful.