Washington, D.C. Oct. 1, 2018 – Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz) and Reps. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) and Michele Lujan Grisham (D-N.M.) led a pair of letters to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke today, each signed by 61 of their House Democratic colleagues, urging him to halt work on any environmental impact statement (EIS) or monument […]
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Natural Resources Committee Democrats Urge Vote on Bill Before Land and Water Conservation Fund Expires
Washington, D.C. Sept. 17, 2018 – Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and the House Natural Resources Committee Democrats launched an online #SaveLWCF initiative today highlighting successful Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) projects implemented across the country in the more than 50 years since the program was established in 1965. Natural Resources Democrats will […]
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Grijalva: Republicans Still Scamming the Public on Endangered Species Act
Washington, D.C. July 12, 2018 – Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva today said that House Republicans’ announcement this afternoon of a suite of nine bills that gut the Endangered Species Act (ESA) is part of their undisguised years-long pattern of pushing unpopular, environmentally destructive favors for corporate supporters. Grijalva questioned the thinking behind Republicans’ in-your-face […]
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Grijalva: Proposed FWS Rule Would Likely Cause Extinction of Endangered Red Wolves in the Wild
Washington, D.C. June 28, 2018 – Today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) formally proposed a rule shrinking the management area for the North Carolina red wolf from the current range of nearly 2 million acres down to a single national wildlife refuge and an adjacent former bombing range, a plan that Ranking Member […]
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Democrats Introduce Mining Reform Bill on Anniversary of President Grant Signing Mining Law of 1872
Washington, D.C. May 10, 2018 – Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee, introduced the Hardrock Leasing and Reclamation Act of 2018 this morning, laying out Democrats’ full range of priorities for hardrock mining reforms in the 115th Congress and beyond. […]
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106 Members of Congress Call on Obama to Protect DACA Immigrants’ Private Data
WASHINGTON, DC, Dec. 5, 2016 – Today, 106 Members of Congress sent a letter to President Obama requesting that he take action to protect the names and private information of those who enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The letter, led by Reps. Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-03), Judy Chu (CA-27), Zoe Lofgren […]