I spoke about the budget including a considerable increase for nuclear survivability.
If another country had troops in the U.S. without our permission and was training military groups to attack our government, wouldn't we obvi...
this is not going to be a military solution. We are going to need to have military action and then follow up with a political solution.
Without an AUMF (Authorization for Use of Military Force), aren't we risking further mission creep and involvement in the Syrian civil war?
This Committee agrees that we want to ensure that the Tribal HUD-VASH Demonstration Program is achieving maximum efficiency.
We are concerned about the message that it may send by condoning separate treatment of different Native communities within the United States...
The issues presented in these bills are important to Indian Country and reflect our shared priorities on this Committee.
S. 1250 would impose sweeping reforms on the Indian Health Service, S. 1275 would reauthorize certain housing programs created by the Native...
I am extremely disheartened by the cuts to programs that enhance our water security.
The state needs more investment in the programs slated to be cut by the proposed budget.
New Mexico is a water constrained state, as many of our western states are, and climate change is exacerbating the challenge faster than any...
I would say again to my Chairman, it has been such a pleasure working with him. He is one of the most bipartisan Senators I know in the Unit...
I think it weakens that responsibility, that understanding, that relationship.
There are two investigations here. There is a special counsel investigation. There is also a congressional investigation. And you are obstru...
You believe it weakens the trust responsibility to those tribes?
For years, without adequate treatment resources, communities in New Mexico have suffered through some of the highest rates of opioid and her...
Over-prescription is partially responsible for the epidemic.
Addiction to heroin and prescription opioid pain relievers is a public health epidemic that is devastating families and communities across t...