Raúl Grijalva

The bill overall is a push to continue to deal only with austerity as a plausible budgetary policy for this country. We can see what that austerity only has done to our country so far. This is how we ended up with sequestration. This is…

My amendment requires the Treasury Secretary's report to also include individual salary and wage information as well as projections of consumer spending and the impact of spending cuts on the gross domestic product. Stagnant American wages…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 4, line 21, strike ``and''. Page 4, after line 25, insert the following: ``(D) projections of earnings…

My amendment simply asks that, in the spirit of this bill and the context of examining the debt, we take a look at Federal revenue trends, which are a critical part of the conversation we are having. Specifically, this amendment asks…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 4, after line 3, insert the following: ``(B) the historical levels of Federal revenue, including…

I have no further speakers. I urge passage of this legislation. This legislation, this 9/11 National Memorial, no matter what corner of this great Nation of ours we are from, we have a shared legacy here. That shared legacy is about…

I would be remiss if I did not extend to Representative MacArthur my appreciation for his leadership and for bringing the bill to this point as well. I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Nadler), whom I…

This bill, as we know, designates the 9/11 Memorial at the World Trade Center as the National September 11 Memorial and authorizes a grant program of up to $25 million per year for the next 7 years to support the operation and the…

One action that would have a much more significant impact on salmon and steelhead recovery is the removal of dams that have outlived their useful life spans.

I hope going forward my Republican colleagues will respect the state of California's role in determining species protections.

Not long ago, the Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, said that he wanted to make the House an ``ideas factory.'' But with this bill today, it is clear that the only items being produced by the House are cookie-cutters, because we have done…

I urge this committee to put the American citizens of Puerto Rico first and allow this island to access bankruptcy protection.

Congress is denying Puerto Rico the ability to have an orderly restructuring of its unpayable debt.

There are a lot of ticking time bombs out there. But, there are lessons learned here that we need to address, and I think getting experts together to work on that is appropriate.

If we implement the proposals in the legislation that our side of the aisle have proposed, and the President's budget, as well as make the polluters pay for that legacy, we shorten the time by 500 years.

We can't let this hearing get away from the responsibility in the first place.

This would raise hundreds of millions of dollars each year, and that's what you need to start to address this problem.

That's not a serious way to address this problem.

This is a serious problem, and it will take serious solutions.

I want to attack the half-million abandoned mines throughout this Nation, many of which are ticking time bombs that we need to address sooner, rather than later.

Unfortunately, it appears from the Majority's memo for this hearing, that the focus today is not going to be on the very real problem of abandoned mines.

There is no way to clean these sites without requiring the mining industry to contribute to the legacy they created.

I am ecstatic that the Majority is actually taking on environmental concerns.

The hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines that are leaking billions of gallons of toxic wastewater into streams and rivers across the country.

We applaud Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Grijalva for introducing the administration's Centennial proposal (H.R. 3556).