Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke responded to a Democratic congressman's call for him to resign by suggesting the lawmaker has poor judgement steaming from alleged bad drinking habits. 
Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva (Ariz.) arranged a "severance package" in 2015 to silence a former top staffer who threatened a lawsuit after claiming the congressman was often drunk and created a hostile work environment, according to a new report. 
The wife of a leading House Democrat owned stock in a top competitor to the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline while he raised red flags about potential conflicts of interest in the government’s review of the project, documents show. A Democratic congressman is attempting to tie the standoff over publicly owned lands in Nevada to a conservative policy group long reviled by the left in what the group says is a baseless and politically motivated attack. 
Sen. Tom Udall (D., N.M.) and Rep. Raul Grijalva (D., Ariz.) are trying to use the current budget crisis to push additional fees on the mining industry. 
The House Natural Resources Committee plans to ignore a letter from Rep. Raul Grijalva (D., Ariz.) that calls for an investigation into a Department of the Interior official connected to the conservative Heartland Institute.
