Raúl Grijalva: “Today, this Republican Congress is taking a short break from trying to destroy our healthcare system to try to destroy…”

“Today, this Republican Congress is taking a short break from trying to destroy our healthcare system to try to destroy the rest of the Federal Government. H.R. 5 is nothing more than Republicans seeking to micromanage the regulatory process to death. They claim they only want good government. In reality, they want no government at all. They want to wrap Federal agencies in so much red tape that they won't be able to move to protect our health, our safety, or our natural resources. Language in title III tries to prevent Federal land managers from actually managing Federal lands. This language would make land managers jump through the same procedural hoops over and over again just to put a new land management plan in place. These new requirements are completely redundant, which is, of course, the point. Federal land management plans already go through extensive review, including by the public, before they are ever even implemented. One way we know this is that the House Republicans complain constantly about how long it takes Federal agencies to come up with a decision. Yet, here they are claiming that this Republican Congress knows best how our public lands and resources should be managed. Let's stop and look at the record. Last Tuesday, almost every single Republican Member of this House voted for a change in our House standing rules to calculate the value of all Federal lands as zero for accounting purposes.…”