His office said in a statement, for a long time representative Raúl M. Grijalva, D-Ariz., Thursday, “complications of cancer treatment” died. He was 77 years old.
Grijalva, who has been working at home for more than 20 years, was elected to the congress in 2002. During this period, he served as the Head of the Natural Resources Committee, And recently it was the best democrat on that home panel. He was also one of the leading progressive sounds in Capitol Hill, and the congress served as co -chairman of the progressive Caucus. From 2009 to 2019.
He continued: “He was committed to the commitment to produce a permanent change through environmental policies – as he said, ‘for babies’. He leads the Natural Resources Committee without fear of echoing, but with the urgency of the consequences of inactivity,” he said.
Grijalva is the second house that died this month. The first-term representative Sylvester Turner, D-Texas, President Donald Trump’s joint address the previous night after joining the Congress suddenly died on March 5th.
The republican majority in the Assembly was extremely strict. The death of Grijalva means that Republicans control 218 seats and democrats control 213 chairs.
Grijalva started his career in public service as a community organizer at Tucson. Before working at the Pima District Audit Board for more than ten years, Tucson has chaired the Board of Directors of the United School Region for six years.
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Rebecca Kaplan contributing.
