Tag: Raúl Grijalva
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Broad coalition of 238 groups call for Obama to appoint Raúl Grijalva as Secretary of Interior
A group of 238 environmental and social justice groups, with a combined membership of many millions, have sent a letter to President Obama asking him to replace departing Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar with Arizona Congressman Raúl Grijalva. The letter, originally sent to President Obama on December 10, 2012, was re-sent after Secretary of Interior Ken…
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“The secretary regrets the exchange.” Who’s next at the Department of Interior?
Yesterday the Desert Independent reported that on Election Day, after being asked about the treatment of wild horses and allegations made in a recent ProPublica article about the illegal sale of wild horses to a slaughter facility in Mexico, Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar turned to the reporter and said “If you set me up like this again,…
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Arizona Republican senators fight Arizona's Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva on closing the Arizona Strip to uranium mining
Followup to Obama’s move to temporarily delay mining claims on a million scenic acres is shaping up into a major battle- Mine ban at Canyon may fuel new fight By Shaun McKinnon and Erin Kelly. Azcentral.com Polls show the state’s residents support the general position of Grijalva. The Arizona Strip is a vast area of…
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Grijalva blasts the attachment of unrelated legislation allowing guns in national parks onto Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights legislation
Grijalva is right – let the merit of the two issues rise or fall of their own accord This past week, an amendment to allow guns in national parks and wildlife refuges was attached to the Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights in the U.S. Senate. Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva, Chairman of the Subcommittee on National…
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Interior nominee Salazar likely to push update, not overhaul, of mining law
The 1872 Mining Law is a long-standing embarrassment, but Obama has shown no interest in dumping it- During the primary election season when Obama first came out against significant reform of this land destroying, trillion* dollar give-away, I thought he had merely received bad advice. Raúl Grijalva’s fervent desire to end this law probably weighed…
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Post Interior Interview with Grijalva
Too much fight ~ not enough industry. Three cheers for Grijalva. Grijalva sizes up why he didn’t get Interior Congressman, still upbeat, says, ‘I have a good job’
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Grijalva Declines Ways and Means Appointment
It’s official – Grijalva has declined his appointment to the powerful Ways and Means Committee to keep his influential position advocating for public lands and wildlife. Press Release 12/16: the need to continue my work on the Committee on Natural Resources and, more specifically, my Subcommittee Chairmanship is more important at this time. There are…
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Interior Update ~ Salazar: Cows AND Condos and oil & guns in parks & big ag …
The recent rumors that rancher Ken Salazar is a shoe-in at Interior have flipped on its head many of Obama’s most fervent western supporters’ idea of what the President-elect’s campaign promise for big-‘C’ “Change” might mean. That campaign slogan’s broad-sweeping allegation had many hopeful that a new outlook, an outlook responsive to Obama’s supporters on…