For this reason, I have introduced legislation to defund any federal tribute bearing Cesar Chavez's name and nullify President Obama's presidential proclamation that enacted this monument in the first place. The no Funding to Honor Crime Scenes act would direct the Secretary of the Interior to immediately close the monument. and sell any and all federal land that includes Chavez's home, his grave site and memorial garden, and any contents of his personal office, which is where we know child sexual abuse occurred. (01:42–01:49)
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Asserts that his proposed legislation would close the Cesar E. Chavez National Monument.
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