Raúl Grijalva

90 percent of American voters support keeping the law intact.

99 percent of listed species have continued to survive, and 90 percent are on schedule to meet their recovery goals.

If an emergency room doctor saved 99 percent of the critical patients that came through the door... that doctor would receive universal praise.

The Endangered Species Act works, bedrock or not.

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

ESA does not need congressional meddling to work better; what it needs is congressional support.

Without resources, asking public school systems to meet any benchmark...you are jeopardizing a lot of children.

Public money that is being diverted to those programs, as a consequence it is less another layer of nonsupport from the public schools in Arizona.

The threat of public funds going to private school vouchers, for-profit charter schools; they are very real now given President Trump and Secretary Devos' singular focus on that concept.

Arizona, along with Mississippi, are at the five lowest States in terms of per people expenditures to the public schools; Arizona is about $3,300 under the national average.

The Minnesota State Cattlemen's Association thanks the House Committee on Natural Resources for showing support and granting a hearing for H.R. 424--Gray Wolf State Management Act of 2017.

I thank the gentleman from California for yielding. Mr. Speaker, H.R. 1404, as was stated by my two colleagues, is a culmination of a longstanding land agreement between Tucson Unified School District and the Pascua Yaqui Tribe. In the…

Litigation "rights the ship," as Mr. Grijalva said, and it's a critically important part of our constitutional system.

I think it is important to the effectiveness of conservation laws and our democracy, in general.

That is exactly the kind of misleading and unfair tactic a responsible judge would throw out of court.

Too often, it seems like my Republican colleagues are arsonists one day, and firefighters the next.

If House Republicans think we should no longer enforce the Endangered Species Act or NEPA, they should have the courage to go before the voters with plans to repeal these laws.

You will hear no evidence today that environmental plaintiffs are subject to more fines or punishments than any other kinds of plaintiffs. This is not a real problem.

My Republican colleagues need to make up their minds: are judges power-mad, judicial activists, or are they defenseless victims being abused by environmental lawyers? The truth is, they are neither.

The ability to sue the government and win leads to better policy outcomes, more faith in government.

The premise of this hearing is false.

Let me just say that this legislation is a solution without a problem. And as I mentioned earlier several times, facts do matter. When we are doing a whole-scale change of how we manage rights-of-way on public lands because of 0.03 percent…

You know, this legislation, with a few modifications, could help prevent the 0.03 percent of wildfires that are caused by electricity infrastructure, but the majority refused to work with us on those modifications. Most importantly, the…

My colleague from California (Mr. Costa) brought up one of the real causes of wildfire, and that was climate change, the lack of mitigation, and the situation within the Forest Service budget in which half of the revenue dedicated to that…

At a hearing on similar legislation in the Natural Resources Committee last Congress, both the Forest Service and BLM testified in opposition and explained how they work with utility companies to address vegetation management issues. In…