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Chair, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, 2003-present
Member, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, 2003-present
Co-Chair, Congressional Progressive Caucus, 2003-present
Member, 21st Century Health Care Caucus, present
Member, Bipartisan Congressional Refugee Caucus, present
Member, Bipartisan Disabilities Caucus, present
Member, Bipartisan Pro-Choice Caucus, present
Member, Children's Environmental Health Caucus, present
Member, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Armenian Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Arts Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Baby Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Bike Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Border Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Caucus on Addiction, Treatment and Recovery, present
Member, Congressional Caucus on Intellectual Property Promotion and Piracy Prevention, present
Member, Congressional Child Care Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Climate Change Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Community College Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Community Health Centers Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Diabetes Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Financial and Economic Literacy Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Friends of Animals Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Glaucoma Caucus, present
Chair, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Education and Job Training Task Force, present
Member, Congressional Human Rights Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Integrative Medicine Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Kidney Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Labor and Working Families Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Long Term Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Military Family Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Missing and Exploited Children Caucus, present
Co-Chair, Congressional National Landscape Conservation System Caucus, present
Member, Congressional National Parks Caucus, present
Member, Congressional National Wildlife Refuge Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Native American Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Nursing Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Out of Iraq Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Out of Poverty Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Port Security Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Public Broadcasting Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Rural Housing Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Science and Math Education Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Songwriters Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Spina Bifida Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Victims' Rights Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Western Caucus, present
Vice-Chair, House Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Caucus, present
Member, House Trails Caucus, present
Member, National Health Insurance Caucus, present
Member, Pediatric Cancer Caucus, present
Member, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Caucus, present
Member, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Caucus, present
Former Member, Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Education and the Workforce Committee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Federal Lands Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Indigenous Peoples of the United States, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (Natural Resources), United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Water, Power and Oceans Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Workforce Protections Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Member, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, 2003-present
Chair, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, 2003-present
Co-Chair, Congressional Progressive Caucus, 2003-present
Member, 21st Century Health Care Caucus, present
Member, Bipartisan Congressional Refugee Caucus, present
Member, Bipartisan Disabilities Caucus, present
Member, Bipartisan Pro-Choice Caucus, present
Member, Children's Environmental Health Caucus, present
Member, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Armenian Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Arts Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Baby Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Bike Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Border Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Caucus on Addiction, Treatment and Recovery, present
Member, Congressional Caucus on Intellectual Property Promotion and Piracy Prevention, present
Member, Congressional Child Care Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Climate Change Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Community College Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Community Health Centers Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Diabetes Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Financial and Economic Literacy Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Friends of Animals Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Glaucoma Caucus, present
Chair, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Education and Job Training Task Force, present
Member, Congressional Human Rights Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Integrative Medicine Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Kidney Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Labor and Working Families Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Long Term Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Military Family Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Missing and Exploited Children Caucus, present
Co-Chair, Congressional National Landscape Conservation System Caucus, present
Member, Congressional National Parks Caucus, present
Member, Congressional National Wildlife Refuge Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Native American Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Nursing Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Out of Iraq Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Out of Poverty Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Port Security Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Public Broadcasting Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Rural Housing Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Science and Math Education Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Songwriters Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Spina Bifida Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Victims' Rights Caucus, present
Member, Congressional Western Caucus, present
Vice-Chair, House Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Caucus, present
Member, House Trails Caucus, present
Member, National Health Insurance Caucus, present
Member, Pediatric Cancer Caucus, present
Member, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Caucus, present
Member, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Caucus, present
Former Member, Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Education and the Workforce Committee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Federal Lands Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Water, Power and Oceans Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Workforce Protections Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Member, Education & Labor Committee
Chair, Natural Resources Committee
Member, Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education
Member, Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Investment
Member, Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife
Astrological Sign:
Aquarius
— Awards:
-AZ Credit Union System Award, 2004
— Father's Occupation:
1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-choice
2. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- Yes
2. In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing defense spending?
- Yes
3. Other or expanded principles
- The Trump/GOP tax scam gave enormous, permanent tax breaks to large corporations and the uber-wealthy while leaving working Americans with temporary crumbs. It is long overdue for the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share and ensure that every American has the same opportunity to prosper.
The DoD has not undergone a proper audit in its department's history and they attempted to bury an internal audit that found $125 BILLION in administrative waste. This money could have helped our veterans and their families. The DoD should be subject to the same financial accountability and transparency as any other department.
1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Yes
2. Other or expanded principles
- The current campaign finance system has failed the American people, plain and simple. As a result of the Supreme Court's disastrous decision in Citizens United v. FEC, an already powerful class of wealthy contributors and corporations were granted even greater influence on elections and our government. As a member of Congress, I have fought for a constitutional amendment that would reverse the Citizens United decision, allow Congress to regulate big money in politics and ultimately restore the sanctity of our democracy by giving the power back to the people.
1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes
2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- No
3. Other or expanded principles
- Rather than relying on failed theories of trickle-down economics to spur economic growth, we should be making investments to repair our nation's crumbling infrastructure that will also create millions of good-paying jobs.
We should also end tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs and profits offshore, which the Republican tax bill expanded. And while corporations have benefited from the republican tax law, data shows that the benefits have not trickled down to employees. Corporations are spending 100x as much on stock buybacks that benefit the wealthy, as opposed to helping their employees.
1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- Yes
2. Other or expanded principles
- Title 9 support for disabled children, Title 1 support for children from low-income families, funding for English as a Second Language programs, and other standards that ensure equal access to education must be followed and not left solely to the discretion of states. However, I do not support one-size-fits-all testing schemes.
1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)?
- Yes
2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- Yes
3. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- Yes
2. Other or expanded principles
- I support commonsense gun safety legislation that will protect our communities while at the same time upholding every American's second amendment right. This includes closing the gunshow loophole and guaranteeing universal background checks, reinstating the ban on assault weapons and prohibiting bump stocks, banning high capacity magazines, and properly funding gun violence research.
1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- No
2. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- No
2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- No
3. Other or expanded principles
- Trump's border wall would waste billions in taxpayer money, cause irreparable environmental damage, and further divide families and sovereign tribal nations.
It is absurd to think that we can simply deport every undocumented person. It would wreak havoc on our economy, in addition to the enormous human toll of asking 12 million people to abandon their livelihoods. Instead, a more practical solution is to allow them to apply for permanent residency with a pathway to citizenship and pay a fee. This is not "amnesty": it's a practical solution to a problem that requires more than unrealistic calls for mass deportation.
1. Do you support the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes?
- Yes
2. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Should the United States use military force in order to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a nuclear weapon?
- No
2. Do you support increased American intervention in Middle Eastern conflicts beyond air support?
- No
3. Other or expanded principles
- Before we even contemplate military action, all diplomatic solutions - not orchestrated meet-and-greets that only serve as propaganda for our adversaries - should be explored prior to any type of military action. The reason for the Iran Deal was specifically to curb Iran's ability to access nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, Trump dismantled one of the only diplomatic avenues we have towards denuclearization and has shown more interest in participating in photo-ops with dictators than accomplishing anything productive to promote world peace.
Please explain in a total of 100 words or less, your top two or three priorities if elected. If they require additional funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding.
- As Ranking Member of the Natural Resources Committee, I have and will continue to lead the fight to address climate change, hold polluters accountable and preserve our public lands. As a member of the Committee on Education and The Workforce, I will fight to provide needed resources to our faltering education system and make access to debt-free higher education a reality for all. Apart from my committee responsibilities, some of my top priorities include protecting Medicaid and Social Security, pushing for universal health care, protecting workers' rights, supporting humane immigration reform, and creating a fair economy that benefits everyone.
Latest Action: House - 06/21/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Tracker:Latest Action: House - 06/21/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Tracker:Latest Action: House - 06/20/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
Tracker:By Raúl M. Grijalva, Rep. Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan U.S. territories, where health infrastructure is weaker than most mainland facilities and local governments are facing serious financial challenges, have already reported several COVID-19 fatalities and dozens of cases. Government officials and residents of the territories are justifiably worried that an inadequate federal pandemic response will lead to preventable loss of life on a scale that -- because of recent disasters -- they've unfortunately already seen in the recent past. As leaders of the House Committee on Natural Resources, we've been working closely with our congressional colleagues and community organizations to ensure the needs of the U.S. territories and their nearly 4 million residents are met during this alarming period. We're pushing our fellow lawmakers to include sufficient funding and support for Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), and American Samoa in upcoming emergency and relief response efforts, and we're urging them to take seriously the consequences of another failure like the one we saw from the Trump administration after Hurricane María. In a recent conversation with Committee staff, Marcos Santana, executive director of the Network for the Rights of Children and Youth of Puerto Rico, shared a story he hoped our colleagues in Congress will take to heart. A homeless couple he knows lost their house to Hurricane María in 2017, and they're now expecting a child. They live in the southern region of the island, where hundreds of earthquakes caused significant damage earlier this year. Fortunately, Santana's organization has found them provisional housing during the outbreak, but they have struggled to find adequate medical care or protect themselves from the pandemic, and the island-wide lockdown declared earlier this month has made it more difficult. The important thing for our colleagues, and the wider public, to consider is that these expectant parents are not just unlucky. Their circumstances would be much more bearable with a functional federal disaster response and adequate support for Puerto Rico and the other U.S. territories. To learn more about how widespread these kinds of cases are, and to monitor the COVID-19 situation in the U.S. territories as closely as possible, the Committee is now seeking responses to a new online survey for government officials and residents to share observations, concerns and recommendations for pandemic response. The more information we gather directly from impacted communities, the greater the chance that Congress listens. Both pandemic response laws passed earlier this month -- the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act (H.R.6074) and the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (H.R. 6201) -- include funding for U.S. territories, which is a good start. H.R. 6074 allows the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to assign funding to territories for case identification, laboratory testing, infection control, and the purchase of equipment and supplies. H.R. 6201 provides an additional $100 million in nutritional assistance grants for Puerto Rico, CNMI, and American Samoa and increases the Medicaid allotment for territories. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (H.R.748), expected to become law this week, is a good start for territorial relief. It treats U.S. territories as states for the purpose of accessing CDC funding and the federal Disaster Relief Fund, and it assigns $200 million in nutritional assistance for Puerto Rico, CNMI, and American Samoa during the emergency. It includes $55 million for the Department of the Interior to extend technical assistance to U.S. territories and Freely Associated States through its Office of Insular Affairs. Nevertheless, more steps need to be taken as soon as possible. It is not clear how direct assistance payments for individuals and applications for unemployment insurance in the territories will be processed. In addition to providing clarity on that crucial question, Congress should expand block grants and tax credit programs to the territories and waive matching fund requirements of federal programs for territories experiencing proven economic hardship. We should protect essential public services in Puerto Rico, such as health care services and the epidemiological research conducted by the University of Puerto Rico, from fiscal austerity by amending the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act. The pandemic has not just highlighted the cracks in what we think of as everyday life. It's put a bright spotlight on many communities we've ignored, neglected and conveniently forgotten about. Allowing millions of Americans across the country to live in poverty, with substandard housing and medical care, was always a policy choice, not an inevitable economic necessity, and the cost of that choice in human lives is now going up every day. We are concerned that that will be especially true for residents of the territories. Congress must not ignore them any longer.
On August 1, 2020, Grijalva announced that he tested positive for coronavirus.
On August 1, 2020, Grijalva announced that he tested positive for coronavirus.
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