Closed record ·Former U.S. Representative ·Arizona ·District 7
Raúl M. Grijalva
- Party
- Democrat
- Left office
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43 votes total
- HJRES 25Mar 11, 2025TaxationBecame LawNot voting
Overturning the IRS Digital Asset Broker Rule
House vote · 292-132
Democrats76-132Republicans216-0Official title: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Internal Revenue Service relating to "Gross Proceeds Reporting by Brokers That Regularly Provide Services Effectuating Digital Asset Sales".
What this does
Congress uses the Congressional Review Act to strike down an IRS rule on digital asset sales. The rule, "Gross Proceeds Reporting by Brokers That Regularly Provide Services Effectuating Digital Asset Sales," was published at 89 Fed. Reg. 106928 on December 30, 2024. A yes vote declares that the rule shall have no force or effect. The resolution does nothing else.
Single-subject. The resolution has one resolving clause that disapproves one named IRS rule. There are no additional sections, riders, or other agencies in the text. A yes carried exactly one thing.
- HR 1968Mar 11, 2025Economics and Public FinanceBundledBecame LawNot voting
Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025
House vote · 217-213
Democrats1-212Republicans216-1What this does
This is the full-year funding law that kept the government open through the end of fiscal year 2025. Division A funds every federal department and agency through September 30, 2025, largely carrying forward fiscal year 2024 levels and conditions, with account-specific changes across all thirteen appropriations areas, from Agriculture and Defense to Homeland Security, Labor-HHS-Education, and Transportation-HUD. It provides an additional 8 billion dollars to the Department of Defense for transfer to support military operations led by Central Command and European Command, sets the FEMA Disaster Relief Fund at 22.5 billion dollars, and strips legal effect from earmarks carried in the fiscal year 2024 acts. Division B extends a set of expiring health programs through September 30, 2025, including funding for community health centers, the National Health Service Corps, teaching health centers, and special diabetes programs, and extends Medicare telehealth flexibilities, the Medicare-dependent hospital program, ambulance add-on payments, and a delay of Medicaid disproportionate share hospital cuts. Division C extends several unrelated authorities set to lapse, including the CFTC whistleblower program, counter-drone protection authority, an added special assessment, the national cybersecurity protection system authorization, and the temporary order scheduling fentanyl-related substances, each pushed from March 2025 to September 30, 2025.
This is a bundle. One vote carried three divisions that do very different things. Division A is the government-wide spending package covering all thirteen appropriations titles, so a yes funded Defense, Homeland Security, Labor-HHS-Education, and every other agency at once. Division B is a stack of health program extensions. Division C rides along a set of otherwise separate authority extensions, including the CFTC whistleblower program, counter-drone authority, cybersecurity system authorization, and the fentanyl-related-substances scheduling order. Members could not vote on any one of these pieces alone.
- HR 1156Mar 11, 2025Labor and EmploymentPassed ChamberNot voting
Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Enforcement Act
House vote · 295-127
Democrats83-127Republicans212-0What this does
Congress sets a 10-year deadline to prosecute or civilly pursue fraud tied to pandemic unemployment benefits. The bill amends the CARES Act so that any criminal prosecution or civil enforcement action for a listed set of federal fraud, theft, identity-theft, access-device, mail, wire, bank, money-laundering, and False Claims Act offenses connected to a pandemic unemployment claim must be brought within 10 years of the violation or conspiracy. It applies this deadline to three programs: Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation and Mixed Earner Unemployment Compensation, and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation. The extended deadline does not revive any case whose statute of limitations had already run out before enactment. The bill also rescinds $5,000,000 from unobligated CARES Act balances.
Every operative section serves one subject: fraud enforcement for pandemic unemployment benefits. The $5,000,000 rescission in Section 3 is a budget offset drawn from the same CARES Act appropriations that funded these programs, not an unrelated rider. The effective-date section is standard. One measure, one subject.
- HR 495Mar 10, 2025ImmigrationPassed ChamberNot voting
Subterranean Border Defense Act
House vote · 402-1
Democrats194-1Republicans208-0What this does
This bill makes annual a Department of Homeland Security report on counter illicit cross-border tunnel operations. The James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 required a report after a strategic plan was developed. This bill inserts the words 'and annually thereafter,' turning that one-time report into a recurring yearly requirement.
Both operative provisions serve one subject: recurring federal reporting on cross-border tunnel operations. The short title and the single amendment carry no unrelated matter.
- HR 993Mar 10, 2025Emergency ManagementPassed ChamberNot voting
Emerging Innovative Border Technologies Act
House vote · 406-9
Democrats197-7Republicans209-2What this does
This bill requires the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through the Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection and the DHS Under Secretary for Science and Technology, to submit a plan to Congress within 180 days for identifying, integrating, and deploying emerging or advanced technologies in border security operations. The plan must cover technologies that may use artificial intelligence, machine learning, automation, fiber-optic sensing, nanotechnology, radar, LIDAR, and imaging systems, among others. The plan's required contents include how CBP uses Innovation Team authority, technologies used by other agencies that CBP could adopt, an analysis of CBP's procurement authorities, an assessment of the privacy and security impact on border communities, a review of legacy programs that could be phased out with cost estimates, and an identification of recent advances in areas such as drones and counter-drone systems, surveillance towers, tunnel detection, and non-intrusive inspection. The bill also authorizes the CBP Commissioner to maintain one or more CBP Innovation Teams to research and adapt commercial technologies and assess their potential outcomes, sets operating-procedure and strategic-goal requirements for those teams, and requires the Commissioner to report on team activities within 180 days and annually thereafter.
Every provision serves the one subject the title names, a plan to identify, integrate, and deploy emerging border-security technologies. The reporting plan and the CBP Innovation Team authority are two parts of that single subject. There is no unrelated rider.
- HR 901Mar 10, 2025Science, Technology, CommunicationsPassed ChamberNot voting
Research Security and Accountability in DHS Act
House vote · 410-1
Democrats202-1Republicans208-0What this does
Requires the Under Secretary for Science and Technology at the Department of Homeland Security to develop a Department-wide policy and process to protect research and development from unauthorized access to or disclosure of sensitive information during research and development acquisitions, adding this duty as paragraph (15) of Section 302 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002. Within one year of enactment, the Comptroller General must report to the House Homeland Security Committee and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on how the Department has complied with National Security Presidential Memorandum 33 and the National Science and Technology Council's 2022 implementation guidance. Within 90 days of enactment, the Secretary must brief those committees on the new policy.
Single subject. All provisions concern safeguarding DHS research and development: a new statutory duty, a GAO report on it, and a congressional briefing on it. Title matches content.
- SJRES 11Mar 6, 2025Public Lands and Natural ResourcesBecame LawNot voting
Overturning the Marine Archaeological Resources Rule
House vote · 221-202
Democrats9-201Republicans212-1Official title: A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management relating to "Protection of Marine Archaeological Resources".
What this does
Nullifies the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management rule titled Protection of Marine Archaeological Resources, published at 89 Fed. Reg. 71160 on September 3, 2024. Acting under the Congressional Review Act in chapter 8 of title 5, Congress disapproves the rule so that it has no force or effect.
Single subject. A Congressional Review Act resolution of disapproval aimed at one named agency rule; there is nothing else in the text.
- HJRES 61Mar 5, 2025Environmental ProtectionBecame LawNot voting
Overturning the EPA Rubber Tire Air Toxics Rule
House vote · 216-202
Democrats7-201Republicans209-1Official title: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Rubber Tire Manufacturing".
What this does
Using the Congressional Review Act, this resolution voids the Environmental Protection Agency's rule titled National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Rubber Tire Manufacturing, published at 89 Fed. Reg. 94886 on November 29, 2024. That rule set limits on hazardous air pollutants from rubber tire manufacturing facilities. Once this resolution takes effect, the rule has no force or effect. Under the Congressional Review Act, the agency may not reissue the rule in substantially the same form without new authorization from Congress.
Single subject. The resolving clause disapproves one identified EPA rule and does nothing else.
- HJRES 42Mar 5, 2025EnergyBecame LawNot voting
Overturning the DOE Appliance Standards Rule
House vote · 222-203
Democrats7-203Republicans215-0Official title: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Energy relating to "Energy Conservation Program for Appliance Standards: Certification Requirements, Labeling Requirements, and Enforcement Provisions for Certain Consumer Products and Commercial Equipment".
What this does
This resolution overturns a Department of Energy rule and strips it of any legal force. Using the Congressional Review Act, Congress disapproves the DOE rule titled "Energy Conservation Program for Appliance Standards: Certification Requirements, Labeling Requirements, and Enforcement Provisions for Certain Consumer Products and Commercial Equipment," published at 89 Fed. Reg. 81994 on October 9, 2024. Once enacted, that rule has no force or effect, and under the Congressional Review Act the agency cannot reissue a substantially similar rule without new authorization from Congress.
One operative sentence disapproving a single named DOE appliance-standards rule. No divisions, riders, or added subjects; the title matches the content.
- HR 758Mar 3, 2025Government Operations and PoliticsPassed ChamberNot voting
Mail Traffic Deaths Reporting Act of 2025
House vote · 402-16
Democrats208-0Republicans194-16What this does
This bill requires the Postal Service to track and publicly report crashes involving mail-carrying vehicles that cause injury or death. Within 90 days of enactment, the Postmaster General must issue regulations requiring collection, tracking, and public reporting of that information, with mechanisms to monitor and enforce compliance. Postal employees and contractors of any tier who are transporting mail must report any crash involving injury or death within three days, using a standard form the Postmaster General must create, and must update the report as injuries or fatalities change. Reports must include the date, time, location, nature of the crash, the contractor's identity, injury and fatality counts, and contributing factors. The Postal Service must keep a continuously updated internal database of this information and publish an annual public report with aggregated statistics and trends, without personally identifying any individual. Contractors who miss the deadline face penalties that may include fines, contract suspension, or termination. The bill defines a reportable crash as one involving a commercial motor vehicle on a highway that causes a fatality, injury requiring immediate off-scene medical treatment, or disabling vehicle damage requiring a tow, and it excludes mere boarding, alighting, or cargo loading.
Both sections serve the reporting system the title names. Section 2 builds the whole scheme: the regulations, the three-day reporting duty for employees and contractors, the database, the annual public report, the penalties, and the definition of a crash. Section 1 is just the short title. There is no unrelated provision.
- HR 856Mar 3, 2025Government Operations and PoliticsPassed ChamberNot voting
Safe and Smart Federal Purchasing Act
House vote · 417-0
Democrats206-0Republicans211-0What this does
This bill orders a study and nothing more. It directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to review the procurement practices of defense and civilian agencies and determine whether the lowest price technically acceptable source selection process, set out in section 15.101-2 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation, has created any national security risk. The Director must report the results within 180 days to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. The bill changes no procurement rule and grants no new authority. It defines the covered agencies by reference to the definition of agency in section 133 of title 41.
The title says the bill requires OMB to review the impact of the lowest price technically acceptable selection process on national security. The single operative section does exactly that and stops there. There is no rider and no gap between the title and the content.
- HJRES 20Feb 27, 2025EnergyBecame LawNot voting
Overturning the DOE Gas Water Heater Rule
House vote · 221-198
Democrats11-198Republicans210-0Official title: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Energy relating to "Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Gas-fired Instantaneous Water Heaters".
What this does
This joint resolution uses the Congressional Review Act to overturn a Department of Energy rule. It disapproves the rule titled "Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Gas-fired Instantaneous Water Heaters" and provides that the rule has no force or effect. The disapproved rule is identified as published at 89 Fed. Reg. 105188 on December 26, 2024.
Single subject. The resolution does one thing: nullify a single named Department of Energy efficiency standard under the Congressional Review Act.
- HJRES 35Feb 26, 2025Environmental ProtectionBecame LawNot voting
Overturning the EPA Waste Emissions Charge Rule
House vote · 220-206
Democrats6-205Republicans214-1Official title: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Waste Emissions Charge for Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems: Procedures for Facilitating Compliance, Including Netting and Exemptions".
What this does
Using the Congressional Review Act, this resolution voids the Environmental Protection Agency's rule on the Waste Emissions Charge for Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems, published at 89 Fed. Reg. 91094 on November 18, 2024. That rule set the procedures for compliance with the methane waste emissions charge on oil and gas facilities, including how facilities could net emissions and qualify for exemptions. Once this resolution takes effect, the rule has no force or effect, so those compliance, netting, and exemption procedures are struck. Under the Congressional Review Act, the agency may not reissue the rule in substantially the same form without new authorization from Congress.
Single subject. The resolving clause disapproves one identified EPA rule and does nothing else.
- HR 695Feb 26, 2025Armed Forces and National SecurityBundledBecame LawNot voting
Medal of Honor Act
House vote · 424-0
Democrats211-0Republicans213-0What this does
This bill raises the special pension paid to living Medal of Honor recipients. Current law fixes that pension at $1,406.73 per month. The bill replaces that fixed figure with a rate tied to a special monthly compensation level. It sets the pension equal to the amount under subsection (m) of the special monthly compensation schedule in 38 U.S.C. 1114, increased to the next intermediate step under subsection (p). It also bars a second cost-of-living increase in any year the pension was already raised. A final section extends an unrelated limit on veterans' pension payments, moving its expiration date from November 30, 2031 to January 31, 2033.
The pension increase is the whole point of the title, and sections 2 and 3 serve it directly. Section 4 does not. It extends the sunset on a separate cap that reduces pension payments for veterans and survivors covered by Medicaid in nursing homes. That cap applies to the general pension population, not to Medal of Honor recipients, and pushing its expiration two years later is a budget offset that pays for the raise. The title covers this only through its catch-all 'and for other purposes.' A reader told the bill honors Medal of Honor recipients would not know it also keeps a benefit limit alive longer for a different group.
- HR 804Feb 25, 2025CommercePassed ChamberNot voting
Rural Small Business Resilience Act
House vote · 415-8
Democrats212-0Republicans203-8What this does
This bill directs the Small Business Administration to make sure people in rural areas get full access to federal disaster assistance. Within one year of enactment, the Administrator must have the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience take the steps needed so that individuals in rural areas covered by a disaster declaration can reach the aid available under section 7(b) of the Small Business Act. That includes targeted outreach and marketing materials aimed at those individuals. A separate section fixes a numbering error in the statute, redesignating a duplicate paragraph (16) about the statute of limitations as paragraph (17).
Both operative sections belong to the same subject. Section 2 is the rural disaster-access mandate the title names. Section 3 is a technical cleanup inside the same section of the Small Business Act, correcting two paragraphs that were both numbered (16). Nothing here reaches beyond SBA disaster assistance.
- HR 788Feb 25, 2025Science, Technology, CommunicationsPassed ChamberNot voting
DOE and SBA Research Act
House vote · 427-3
Democrats212-0Republicans215-3What this does
This bill directs the Secretary of Energy and the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to sign a memorandum of understanding, or another agreement, to run joint research and development work advancing both agencies' missions. The two officials must ensure small business concerns are included in those activities where appropriate. They may enter reimbursable agreements and bring in other federal agencies. Within two years, they must report to Congress on the coordination, achievements, and future opportunities of the work. The research must comply with existing federal research security law. The bill authorizes no additional money to carry out any of this.
Every section serves one subject: a joint DOE and SBA research arrangement. The short title, the mandate to sign an agreement, the small business inclusion requirement, the report, the research security clause, and the no-new-money clause all point at the same program. Nothing unrelated rides along.
- HR 818Feb 24, 2025CommercePassed ChamberNot voting
SPUR Act
House vote · 384-25
Democrats203-0Republicans181-25What this does
This bill adds a new measure to the federal small business contracting scorecard. Agencies would have to report how many new small business entrants won prime contracts in each industry code during the fiscal year, broken out for firms owned by service-disabled veterans, HUBZone firms, disadvantaged-owned firms, and women-owned firms, with a comparison to the prior year where available. The bill defines a 'new small business entrant' as a firm that won a federal prime contract and had never been awarded a prime contract by any federal agency before. It also defines 'scorecard' as an agency rating summary that includes the listed measures and assigns each agency a score. A final section states that no additional money is authorized to carry out the bill.
Every section serves the scorecard change the title names. Section 2 adds the new-entrant reporting measure and its definitions to section 15(y) of the Small Business Act. Section 3 is the pay-as-you-go statement that the bill authorizes no new spending. There is no unrelated provision.
- HR 825Feb 24, 2025CommercePassed ChamberNot voting
Assisting Small Businesses Not Fraudsters Act
House vote · 405-0
Democrats200-0Republicans205-0What this does
This bill bars people convicted of certain financial crimes from getting SBA money. It amends the Small Business Act so that an associate of a small business who is finally convicted of a crime involving financial misconduct or a false statement tied to a covered loan or grant becomes ineligible for SBA financial assistance. A small business that has such a convicted associate is also cut off. The one carve-out is section 7(b) disaster assistance, which stays available. Covered loans and grants include PPP loans, certain COVID-era disaster loans, and Restaurant Revitalization and Shuttered Venue grants. An associate is defined to include officers, directors, key employees, and owners of more than 20 percent. Finally convicted means the conviction is no longer appealable or the appeal is finished. The prohibition does not reach any government contract or agreement entered before enactment.
Every provision serves the one subject the title names: shutting fraud-convicted people out of SBA assistance. The definitions of associate, covered loan or grant, and finally convicted set the boundaries of that single ban. The applicability clause limits it going forward. Nothing unrelated is attached.
- HR 832Feb 24, 2025CommercePassed ChamberNot voting
Small Business Advocacy Improvements Act of 2025
House vote · 396-15
Democrats203-0Republicans193-15What this does
This bill rewrites part of the mandate of the SBA's Office of Advocacy. It expands the Office's function of examining the role of small business in the economy to also cover the international economy. It fixes two typographical errors in existing law, changing complete to compete and serviced-disabled to service-disabled. It also adds a new duty: the Office is to represent the views and interests of small businesses before foreign governments and international entities on regulatory and trade initiatives that may affect small businesses.
Each change targets the same statute governing the Office of Advocacy and points in one direction: giving that office an international role. The two typo fixes sit inside the same amended sections. There is no unrelated rider and no title-versus-content gap.
- HR 35Feb 13, 2025ImmigrationPassed ChamberNot voting
Agent Raul Gonzalez Officer Safety Act
House vote · 264-155
Democrats50-155Republicans214-0What this does
The bill creates a new federal crime for intentionally fleeing a pursuing federal officer while driving a motor vehicle within 100 miles of the U.S. border. The offense covers fleeing a U.S. Border Patrol agent acting under lawful authority, or any federal, state, or local officer assisting or under Border Patrol command. Penalties escalate with harm: up to 2 years in prison for the base offense, 5 to 20 years if serious bodily injury results, and 10 years to life if a death results. The bill also makes any noncitizen convicted of, or who admits, this offense inadmissible and deportable, and ineligible for immigration relief including asylum. The Attorney General and DHS must submit an annual report to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees on the number of violations, charges, apprehensions, and penalties.
Single subject. All sections build out one new fleeing-a-federal-officer offense and its criminal and immigration consequences; no divisions or unrelated riders, and the short title reflects the content.