Raúl Grijalva

The request that we have in the President's budget for offshore oil and gas activities for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management are essential for us to move forward with the robust oil and gas permitting program in the nation's oceans

It is a modest investment in the future of America because the dollars that we are putting in to buying in holdings and connecting up wildlife corridors and the rest of the things to get American people into the outdoors are important to…

I hope that struggle doesn't become an opportunity to shield, for the oil and gas industry to go back to some unregulated winner take all policy.

I would hope that we, in America, can create the gold standard for safe oil and gas production in the oceans of this world.

I think your report is compelling because it deals with the role of government.

Thank you very much.

Gentlemen, if the current offshore policy is based on some similar assumptions... don't we have to rewrite our offshore policy?

This amendment would ensure that the tribes would be among the governments and groups with whom the Secretaries would contract to provide temporary housing for Corps participants. We support this amendment and appreciate the gentleman's…

It is something that we have seen in the Ken Burns documentary now in terms of preserving our Federal lands either as national parks, national monuments.

The inconsistent argument that I have also read from Congressman Bishop is that somehow the enabling act for Utah becoming a state requires that the Federal Government sell all of its lands and give 5 percent of the proceeds to the state.

The people of Carbon County and the rest of rural Utah trust our Utah Congressional delegation to represent us because they understand Utah and have shown us that they listen.

If you do not act Utahns will lose out, Americans will lose out, and, worst of all, future generations will lose out.

The amount of land proposed for this designation is overwhelming--it is the approximate equivalent of the size of the State of Maryland.

Peter went above and beyond his legislative duty by trekking last fall to the rarely-visited Devil's Staircase waterfall.

I urge the committee to pass H.R. 2781 and designate this section of the Molalla River as part of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

The proposal has not been presented by the sponsor to the many stakeholders in this issue, particularly the rural citizens who feel so passionately about the matter.

I want to give special thanks to Representative DeFazio.

I do not support H.R. 1925--it does not reflect the collective views of the many interested stakeholders in Utah.

Given the beauty and the awe these great landscapes inspire, support for protecting these public lands is widespread.

The Bureau of Land Management has already verified that over 75 percent of the public lands protected by this legislation have wilderness characteristics through its past inventories of the land.

These lands are rich with archeological remnants of prehistoric cultures, and they are a haven for outdoor recreation enthusiasts, scientists, hikers, educators, wildlife enthusiasts and many, many more.

The Red Rock bill would designate as wilderness over nine million acres of public lands owned by the American people and managed by the Bureau of Land Management.

Today it is others trying to dig up the red rocks. Those of us who believe we should preserve our natural treasures for future generations have an obligation to do all that we can to continue the efforts of those individuals like Teddy…

I hope that we can still strive to be constructive despite differences.

I know this Red Rocks wilderness bill has garnered just a bit of attention today!