After the redistricting process based on the 2010 Census, much of the 7th District became the new 3rd Congressional District, which Grijalva will represent if he is re-elected in 2012.

As co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Rep. Grijalva has taken a leading role in shaping recent CPC " alternative budgets " -- budget bills offered by various groups and caucuses in Congress other than the official majority or minority party plan.

In 2012, again with Grijalva as co-chair, the Progressive Caucus introduced the Budget for All, which is similar to the People's Budget and includes several new features, including a novel proposal to institute a small personal wealth tax above $ 10 million in net worth phased in over a period of five years.

As co-chair of the Progressive Caucus, Grijalva was a prominent supporter of a public option throughout the debate over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Diego Velázquez, the governor of Cuba, ordered an expedition sent out with four ships supplied with crossbows, muskets, salt pork, and cassava bread for some 240 men led by his nephew, Juan de Grijalva.

The Grijalva expedition had similar, mixed experiences with the native Maya and seemed genuinely anxious to fulfil Velázquez ' order to explore rather than settle.

Grijalva was sent out with four ships and some 240 men.

In 1518, Juan de Grijalva came to the area with his crew and named the river “ Río de las Banderas ” because they saw indigenous peoples communicating across the river with flags.

Grijalva has largely been supportive of the health care reform law since its passage and argued the Supreme Court should not overturn it during a segment with Republican Rep. Peter Roskam, who opposes the law, for the PBS NewsHour on March 28, 2012.

Nevertheless, Díaz returned to the coast of Yucatán in April 1518, in an expedition led by Juan de Grijalva, with the intent of exploring the newly discovered lands.

The Spanish captain Juan de Grijalva, along with Bernal Díaz del Castillo, first arrived in 1518 at the island later known as San Juan de Ulúa The Spanish gave it that name because they landed on the Christian feast of John the Baptist, and in honor of the captain.

This caused the city problems with pirates, prompting the construction of Fort San Juan de Ulúa on the island where Grijalva landed in the mid 16th century.

The Cuilco River enters the department from neighbouring San Marcos and crosses into the Mexican state of Chiapas, where it joins with the Grijalva River, which empties into the Gulf of Mexico.

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Tracy G ( born Tracy Grijalva on January 3, 1959 in Whittier, California ) is an American heavy metal guitarist best known for his time with Dio from 1993 to 1999.

One of the main tourist attractions for the municipality is the Sumidero Canyon, with the municipal docks on the Grijalva River mostly serving tour boats into the National Park up to the La Angostura Dam.

The CPC is currently co-chaired by U. S. Representatives Raúl Grijalva ( D-AZ ) and Keith Ellison ( D-MN ).

In 2008, Grijalva released a report called The Bush Administration's Assaults on Our National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, which accused the Bush administration of mismanaging public land and reducing barriers to commercial access.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Grijalva endorsed Barack Obama for President ; his district, however, was won by Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Proto-Maya, the common ancestor of all Maya languages, was probably spoken in west-central Guatemala, around the highland pine-oak forests of the Cuchumatanes mountain chain: north of the Motagua and Grijalva river valleys, through patches of cloud forest, and down to the edge of the tropical forest lowlands near the Ixcán and Chixoy ( Negro ) rivers, which flow into the Usumacinta River.

Founded officially on 24 June 1564 by the Spanish Diego de Quijada on the banks of the Grijalva River under the name of Villa Hermosa, in 1826 the village was raised to the rank of city under the name of San Juan Bautista de la Villa Hermosa ( Saint John the Baptist ).

The first Spanish expedition to visit Cozumel was led by Juan de Grijalva in 1518 ; in the following year Hernán Cortés stopped by the island on his way to Veracruz.

Grijalva was born in Tucson, Arizona, and graduated from Sunnyside High School in 1967.

According to the standard history of the party by Dr. Armando Navarro, “ Grijalva was so militant that he alienated some members of Tucson ’ s Mexican-American community.

Grijalva Elementary School in Tucson was named for him in 1987.

From 1975 to 1986, Grijalva was the director of the El Pueblo Neighborhood Center, and in 1987 he was Assistant Dean for Hispanic Student Affairs at the University of Arizona.

Grijalva was a member of the Pima County Board of Supervisors from 1989 to 2002, and served as chairman from 2000 to 2002.

Shortly after the measure was signed by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, Grijalva called on legal, political, activist and business groups not to hold their conventions or conferences in the state, a position that he said quickly became misconstrued as a call for a general boycott of the state economy.

On Feb. 24, 2010, Grijalva wrote a letter signed by 18 other Representatives calling for an investigation of the BP Atlantis offshore drilling platform due to whistleblower allegations that it was operating without approved safety documents.

As a member and chairman of the Pima County Board of Supervisors, Grijalva was widely regarded as a central figure behind the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan, an ambitious County program for planned land-use and biodiversity conservation.

After the passage in April 2010 of Arizona's controversial SB 1070 law, which he saw as opening the door to racial profiling and granting traditionally federal immigration enforcement powers to local authorities, Grijalva suggested that civic, religious, labor, Latino, and other like-minded organizations refrain from using Arizona as a convention site until the law was repealed.

After the General Election, Grijalva was one of 31 Representatives who voted in the House not to count the electoral votes from Ohio on grounds of unacceptable irregularities.

Grijalva won a crowded seven-way Democratic primary, which was tantamount to election in this heavily Democratic, majority-Hispanic district.

It was reported that although Grijalva had decades of experience and McClung had none, and although there were twice as many Democrats in the district as there were Republicans, the two candidates were neck-and-neck in the polls.

Grijalva won 50 %- 44 % -- his closest margin of victory since being elected, and the first close election in what is now the 7th since 1978, when Udall was held to only 52 percent of the vote.

Juan de Grijalva ( born around 1489 in Cuéllar-January 21, 1527 ) was a Spanish conquistador.

The main pilot was Antón de Alaminos, the other pilots were Juan Álvarez ( also known as el Manquillo ), Pedro Camacho de Triana, and Grijalva.

Río Grijalva ( Mexico ) was named after him.

Juan de Grijalva was told of Amazons during his 1518 expedition through the Tabasco region of Mexico.

On the ideological map of all House members at GovTrack's website, Grijalva is ranked farthest to the left.

After the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords, Grijalva called it a consequence of the violent rhetoric that had been used by Tea Party members.