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Rape for a long time. Raul Grizzalwa, D-Eries., A major progressive voice on environment and climate change, On Thursday, he died of “complications of treatment of cancer”, his office announced in a statement. He was 77 years old.

First elected to the Congress in 2002, Grislava won the election 11 times again. He raised to become the chairman of the Natural Resources Committee, a post he held from 2015 to 2019, and recently the top Democrats in the committee. Apart from being a senior member of the Congress’s Hispanic Caucus, he was also the longest servant of the Congress Progressive Cocks from 2009 to 2019.

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“He was firm in his commitment to produce permanent changes through environmental policies – as he used to say,” This is for infants. ” He said in a statement, “He led the Natural Resource Committee without fear of the result, but with the urgency of the results of the inaction,” his employees said in a statement.

The statement said, “Their strong belief was that any truth units unite us: Everyone deserves freedom to live a healthy life, and every child gives a safe and fair opportunity in his future,” the statement says.

Grijalwa is the second house Democrat to die in the office this month. First-Term Rape. Sylvester Turner, D-Texas, suddenly died on 5 March, when he participated in Congress a night earlier in a joint address of President Donald Trump.

The Republican majority in the House has tightened this Congress. Grizzalwa’s death means that Republicans control 218 seats and control Democrats 213.

Grizzalwa represented the 7th Congress district of Arizona, a vast border area, extending from Tuxon to Yuma and also included suburbs outside Phoenix.

Grizzalwa was born to the south of the Tuxon on the historic Canoa War, which is now a conservation park that named it. His father, a migrant activist from Mexico, came to the United States through a Bracereo Labor Program. He and his wife, Ramona, have three daughters.

It was in Taxon where he started his career in public service as a community organizer. He chaired the Taxon Unified School District Governing Board for six years, before he served in Pima County Board of Supervisors for more than a decade.

Grizzalwa’s health was declining in the last one year. In April, he announced that his physician had diagnosed cancer after constant medical treatment for coughing.

“It has become difficult to process this diagnosis,” said Grizzalwa at the time, “But I am convinced in the vigorous course of treatment that my medical team has developed, and I have started my journey to fight this cancer.”

After November elections, six-term rapes. Jreds Hafman, D-Calif. Instead of the battle for the post, Grizzalwa excluded and a companion south -western, rape. Melani Stansbury, DNM Hafman easily defeated him.

The first day of Grijalwa New Congress was sworn in for a new term, for the last time at Capital. He had lost a significant amount of weight and was in a wheelchair. Since then, he missed every house by vote.

Arizona village. Katie Hobbes, a Democrat, is expected to call a special election to fill the vacancy in the coming days. Grizzalwa’s seat is deep blue, and Democrats are expected to catch it easily.

Grijalwa’s death was announced as the house Democrats were gathering at Virginia on their annual policy withdrawal.

At a progressive Cocks News Conference on Thursday, Chairman Greg Kaiser, D-Texas, Grislava is called “a champion of environment and environment justice” and “a real patron and a real patron and friend for me”.

“I know the people of Arizona are in mourning, and our thoughts are really with his family, but today it’s very difficult news for us,” Kaiser said some time after the announcement.

“And I would say both … as a young latino in politics, there were not many Lathani to look with a real national profile, and that is someone who is just that I am … someone I saw and he was able to serve very briefly.”

During its nearly quarterly century in Washington, Grislava fought to protect Grand Canyon, modernize the land ports of entry, expand health care for tribal communities, to combat climate change and secure money to forgive students.

In a statement on Thursday, House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffrees, DN And said that “Congress, Cocks and Desh lost a huge” which fought for the environment and against climate change.

“As the Chairman and Top Democrat in the Natural Resources Committee, rape Grizzalwa ensured that historical investment in our environment and public lands was effective and justified,” Jeffrees said. “Raul led for example, pushed all the people around him to deal with the climate crisis, which now, along with the fiery urge, including inflation deficiency act, which he made the champion.”