Raúl Grijalva

Every dollar invested generates $10 dollars in economic activity.

Over the past 10 years, the budget for the National Park Service has decreased by nearly 16 percent.

Congress has the responsibility to invest in our national parks, ensuring that they will endure another century.

Essential to celebrating the Centennial is also America's investment in its parks, a legacy that is 100 years old.

The glaring omission of no funding, no resources, and the self-fulfilling prophecy that we continue to cut at the agency

I fear that it is an exercise in wishful thinking.

The ``National Park Service Centennial Act.''

The National Park Service requires upwards of $800 million per year just to maintain the status quo.

The reality is that starving agencies like the National Park Service of the resources they need... is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

H.R. 3556 provides $300 million for a new Second Century Infrastructure Investment Fund.

New revenue generated by fees will not solve this problem.

In March of this year, I introduced this legislation, the Preservation Research at Institutions Serving Minorities, the PRISM Act, to ensure that over 400 Hispanic-serving institutions have access to a competitive grant program for…

I am not going to get into the points that were made about extortion and immorality. What is going on here is that this piece of legislation, H.R. 308, seeks to target just one tribe, the Tohono O'odham Nation, in order to retroactively…

There have already been 18 court and Federal agency rulings favoring Tohono O'odham Nation on this issue, and we can dismiss those court decisions by Federal judges--the Ninth Circuit--State judges, administrative hearings with the…

Today, as all of us extend our condolences of support to the people of France, to the loss of life, to the friends and loved ones and families of those murdered by terrorism, we ask Congress that the administration have the resolve to…

And states are not necessarily concerned with promoting or protecting our inherent sovereign authority.

Even all the historical, factual work that Interior might do through a rigorous process on behalf of a tribal petition, there is no path forward in the legislation, no time frame, no up or down vote required, nothing.

If we can step away from some of these ideological debates, and deal with some of the really pragmatic things that are going to make the life of our fellow citizens better, then we should deal with those.

I think there is a lot of talk. And what happens is, on issues important to Indian country, that we end up dealing with issues of either ideological convenience, or of convenience as to who is able to grease the process the best.

Congress, and its function, is critically important. And this institution is important, but it is an institution ripe for getting politicized on almost every issue.

That constitutional question, if I may, your response to that is that we have no choice but to do this legislation, because otherwise we are violating the Constitution.

Indian country is on high alert about what this means. And they should be, rightfully so.

I kind of see the Chairman's legislation as a first step toward a slippery slope on a bunch of issues.

I just want to tell Chairman Young that I appreciate the lipstick on this particular piece of legislation, but the content is still haphazard. It does not fix the underlying problem with public review and judicial review. We are not in…

I just want to note that the Democrats on the Natural Resources Committee filed several amendments to this bill. We felt our Members were squarely within the House rules. Sadly, the majority on Rules failed to make any of their amendments…