Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), the highest Democrat on the Home Pure Sources Committee, will again Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) to succeed him over Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), who introduced a problem to Grijalva’s management earlier than the Arizona Democrat introduced he wouldn’t search to retain the management place.
“Rep. Stansbury has made her mark as a strategic and tenacious advocate for advancing environmental justice, strengthening tribal sovereignty, and securing water for communities in the drought-stricken West,” Grijalva mentioned in a press release Thursday. “Her tenure as Ranking Member on the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee proves her leadership in standing up to polluting industries and holding them to account, even when Democrats don’t hold the gavel.”
Grijalva, who’s retiring after the time period he received in November, introduced final week that he would step again from his function because the panel’s prime Democrat final week after 10 years. The Arizona Democrat had initially advised The Hill he meant to hunt to retain the management place within the subsequent Congress, however introduced on Monday that it was “the right moment to pass the torch.”
The 12-term Democrat introduced an unspecified most cancers analysis in April, and was absent from the Capitol for a lot of the session as he underwent therapy.
Stansbury was elected in 2021, succeeding Inside Secretary Deb Haaland. Huffman had beforehand known as for committee Democrats to call Grijalva the committee’s “Ranking Member Emeritus,” vowing to “look to him as a key partner in guiding the Committee through the challenges and opportunities of the next two years.”
The potential for a succession struggle stands in stark distinction to the Home Judiciary Committee, the place Rating Member Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) introduced Wednesday that he’ll cede the rating member place to Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) relatively than face a problem from the Maryland Democrat to the place.
The Hill has reached out to Huffman’s workplace for remark.
