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This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society.
Raul Grijalva / U.s. Representative
American Society
Fabric
Undermining
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The American people have decided that it was a mistake to choose to go to war in Iraq.
Raul Grijalva / U.s. Representative
Mistake
American People
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How many times will this Congress waste time on an issue that a majority of Americans do not want?
Raul Grijalva / U.s. Representative
Congress
Issues
Majority
Want
Waste
How Many Times
Issue
Waste Time
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No one in this body wants to see terrorism and the rule of force prevail in Iraq. Some on the other side say otherwise, but I believe they know better.
Raul Grijalva / U.s. Representative
Believe
Body
Iraq
Terrorism
Otherwise
Prevail
Rule
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The majority of surveys throughout this Nation show that the American people are advocating for a comprehensive and realistic approach to immigration reform.
Raul Grijalva / U.s. Representative
Advocating
Approach
Comprehensive
Immigration
Immigration Reform
Majority
People
Realistic
Surveys
People Immigration American
American People
Throughout
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Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on biofuels and other alternatives.
Raul Grijalva / U.s. Representative
Alternatives
Destroying
Fuel
Oil
Standards
Automobiles
Efforts
Focusing
Increasing
Paltry
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We, as a country, have not seen a significant change in immigration policy in nearly two decades, even though all Americans agree that current immigration policy is outdated and malfunctioning.
Raul Grijalva / U.s. Representative
Agree
Country
Decades
Immigration
Immigration Policy
Outdated
Significant
Significant Change
Two
All Americans
Nearly
Current
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While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.
Raul Grijalva / U.s. Representative
Home
Belated
Debate
Effort
Empty
Honor
Iraq
Mistake
Nevertheless
Troops
Begin
Admit
American People
Gesture
Inform
Troops Home
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Bringing the troops home is necessary not just for the future of Iraq, but also for the people of the United States. We must stop the hemorrhaging of tax dollars that could go to meet our Nations vital domestic needs.
Raul Grijalva / U.s. Representative
Home
Iraq
People
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Bringing the troops home is necessary not just for the future of Iraq, but also for the people of the United States. We must stop the hemorrhaging of tax dollars that could go to meet our Nation's vital domestic needs.
Raul Grijalva / U.s. Representative
Dollars
Tax Dollars
Troops
Tax
Bringing
Domestic
For The People
Troops Home
Vital
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More than half the combat deaths in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon was elected on a promise to bring the war to an end, and after the American people had already decided that they did not want one more soldier to die in Vietnam.
Raul Grijalva / U.s. Representative
Combat
Promise
Soldier
Vietnam
American People
Deaths
War Die People
Nixon
Occurred
Richard Nixon
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We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.
Raul Grijalva / U.s. Representative
Home
War
Congress
Fantasy
Fighting
Men And Women
Troops
War Men Women
American People
Bringing
War Women Men
Issue
Troops Home
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If this Nation really wants to create an effective border security policy, we need to have a debate that includes a discussion about actual solutions to our problems, which means taking all of the political grandstanding and baiting out of the equation.
Raul Grijalva / U.s. Representative
Border Security
Debate
Discussion
Solutions
Actual
Border
Effective
Equation
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We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation.
Raul Grijalva / U.s. Representative
Country
Creating
Defeat
Division
Issues
Long Term
Path
Short Term
Splits
Based
Nation
Immigrant
Issue
Possibly
Shun
We Cannot
Wedge
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There's no doubt that the Donald Trump administration, part of the red meat that he ran on from the first day when he announced his candidacy was a very extreme anti-immigrant rhetoric that he kept up through the whole campaign - the wall, deportation, more detention. And I think that that particular piece of red meat, he's going to throw out every once in a while and try to - of all the commitments that he's made, this is the one that is most disturbing, because it's one that he will try to fulfill through his presidency.
Raul Grijalva / U.s. Representative
Commitment
Thinking
Wall
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