Raúl Grijalva

Accountability in terms of employment practices in this nation is an important part of the responsibility of the EEOC.

The unstated choice being presented today is the EEOC's work on individual cases versus systemic, broad-based, policy and practice over multiple entities, is it an either/or proposition?

Do you believe the president, this president, has the authority to unilaterally abolish national monuments?

If President Trump insists on managing our national parks and monuments like he managed his business ventures, he will bankrupt America's outdoor legacy.

Never in my 14 years of Congress have I seen such a concerted effort to suppress the voices of local tribes by such powerful, deep-pocketed opponents.

When President Trump and House Republicans seek to destroy the Antiquities Act and the special places it has protected, they place themselves squarely on the wrong side of history.

Elections have consequences, and if President Trump has no interest in joining the long line of his predecessors who identified and preserved new national monuments, that is his decision.

I cannot even begin to describe how disrespectful and demeaning this dismissive language is to her, and to the local people and tribes in this area.

I am concerned that this Executive Order and this hearing are the beginning of future efforts to erode or strip away the authority of the Antiquities Act.

According to the Outdoor Industry Association, outdoor recreation generates $887 billion in economic activity and supports 7.6 million jobs nationwide.

Americans support national monuments and the Antiquities Act.

The tremendous array of cultural, historical, and natural resources protected for future generations because of this law should be recognized.

Unfortunately, some laws have grown outdated or have been abused over time and strayed far from their intended use.

The Department of the Interior, the Army Corps of Engineers, the Center Delta Water Agency, and the California Department of Fish and Game all rejected the idea that the levee failure had anything to do with the Endangered Species Act.

Mr. Calkins, in your testimony you repeat the fable that the endangered species protections for the Valley longhorn elderberry beetle caused the failure of the levee on the Feather River in 1997.

The state of Montana's non-ESA related concerns about water quality in the Cabinet Mountain Wilderness area are preventing project approval.

This is a broad-based community opposition of magnitude and duration.

I thank the gentlewoman for not only managing the time, but her leadership and great work in Congress. Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak about the millions of Americans who will suffer under this oxymoron called TrumpCare. This bill will result…

I write to you in my capacity as the Executive Director of the Atlantic Offshore Lobstermen's Association and member of the National Coalition for Fishing Communities regarding the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument.

If Rep. Ros-Lehtinen wants to protect corals from climate change, her party and her CORAL bill should support the move to renewable energy.

Republicans are fixated on undermining this law, even though it has been critical to protecting spectacular places on land--like the Grand Canyon in my home state.

He has called the Antiquities Act one of the most evil acts ever created and suggested anyone who likes the Act should die.

Chairman Bishop has asked President Trump to allow industrial fishing at all marine monuments and to abolish the newly-designated Bears Ears Monument in Utah.

If the Majority wanted to help fishermen, they would be giving managers what they need to understand shifting stocks, not proposing massive budget cuts for science and monitoring.

Today's hearing is not about helping fishermen catch more fish. If it was, we would be talking about the science proving that climate change is jeopardizing our fisheries.