{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=13&itemid=1489", "Grijalva Cites Impacts on Tribes in Opposing Gosar Bill to Outlaw Presidential Declarations of New National Monuments in Arizona", "2013-06-04", "2013", "2013-06", "Democrat", "House", "AZ", "Ra\u00fal Grijalva", "G000551", "grijalva.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, D.C.\u00a0\u2013 Rep. Ra\u00fal M. Grijalva today expressed serious concerns about Rep. Paul Gosar\u2019s newly introduced Arizona Land Sovereignty Act (H.R. 1495), which would prohibit presidents from designating any new national monuments in Arizona. Presidents have had the authority to designate new national monuments to protect sensitive cultural or environmental resources since the non-controversial passage of the Antiquities Act in 1906.\r\n\r\n\tGosar\u2019s bill is especially misplaced in Arizona, Grijalva said, because 16 of the state\u2019s 18 current national monuments were presidentially designated, including several of the nation\u2019s most visited. Organ Pipe, Montezuma Castle and Canyon de Chelly \u2013 each created by presidential order \u2013 are among the\u00a020 most visited national monuments\u00a0in the country. All but three of the state\u2019s monuments were created to protect Native American rock art, artifacts, ruins, quarries, habitations or other cultural resources.\r\n\r\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s a point at which we have to wonder whose interest is being served here,\u201d Grijalva said. \u201cWith all due respect to my colleague Rep. Gosar, this bill smacks of special interests and trying to score cheap political points. The Antiquities Act has done more than any other law to preserve thousands of years of Native American heritage. Suddenly we\u2019re supposed to believe it\u2019s a federal emergency worthy of Congressional meddling.\u201d\r\n\r\n\tGosar\u2019s bill, among others, will be discussed at a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulations on Thursday.\r\n\r\n\tArizona\u2019s national monuments include:\r\n\r\n\t-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sonoran Desert National Monument (created by President Bill Clinton)\r\n\r\n\t-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ironwood Forest National Monument (created by President Bill Clinton)\r\n\r\n\t-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Casa Grande Ruins National Monument (created by President Woodrow Wilson)\r\n\r\n\t-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Tonto National Monument (created by President Theodore Roosevelt)\r\n\r\n\t-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Agua Fria National Monument (created by President Bill Clinton)\r\n\r\n\t-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Montezuma Castle National Monument (created by President Theodore Roosevelt)\r\n\r\n\t-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Tuzigoot National Monument (created by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt)\r\n\r\n\t-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Walnut Canyon National Monument (created by President Woodrow Wilson)\r\n\r\n\t-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sunset Crater National Monument (created by President Herbert Hoover)\r\n\r\n\t-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Wupatki National Monument (created by president Calvin Coolidge)\r\n\r\n\t-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Canyon de Chelly National Monument (created by President Herbert Hoover)\r\n\r\n\t-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument (created by President Bill Clinton)\r\n\r\n\t-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Navajo National Monument (created by President William Howard Taft)\r\n\r\n\t-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Vermilion Cliffs National Monument (created by President Bill Clinton)\r\n\r\n\t-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Pipe Spring National Monument (created by President Warren Harding)\r\n\r\n\t-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Organ Pipe National Monument (created by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt)\r\n\r\n\t-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hohokam Pima National Monument (created by Congress in 1972)\r\n\r\n\t-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Chiricahua National Monument (created by Congress in 1924)\r\n\r\n\tOf those, only Chiricahua, Sunset Crater and Vermilion Cliffs were not designated at least in part to preserve Native American historical and cultural treasures. Future potential designations in Arizona would likely serve the same function, Grijalva said.\r\n\r\n\t\u201cI just don\u2019t see what real problem this bill is trying to solve, and I don\u2019t think I\u2019m alone,\u201d Grijalva said. \u201cOur national and cultural heritage truly is supposed to be beyond politics. This has nothing to do with Democrats and Republicans \u2013 it\u2019s about preserving a successful, hundred-year-plus-old system of protecting our most important ecological and historic sites for the future. If that\u2019s upsetting to Rep. 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