The Navy will experience the impacts of climate change sooner rather than later as sea levels rise and wreak havoc on our Naval bases.

New Mexico's bases greatly benefit, as you all know, from military construction.

How concerned are you with the proliferation of this technology? And how are you working to ensure that bases and new projects are protected from this capability?

This letter is to state our support for full funding of the PILT program in the Federal fiscal year 2018 budget.

Half the State is on Medicaid with some of the worst healthcare outcomes.

We are, in fact, a disaster using your budget blueprint.

Twenty percent of New Mexicans live in poverty, 28 percent of New Mexico children live in poverty, second highest in the Nation.

I want to talk to you a little bit how I am living that.

if with a want to have kind of a Cadillac growth in the economy and GDP, you want that and you want to get kind of a balanced perspective about who thinks that can happen, do comprehensive immigration reform.

Ten years ago we had a 3.7 unemployment rate. Today, we have the highest unemployment rate in the Nation at 6.7 percent.

It is offensive and, frankly, not constructive to blame communities for the challenges that they face today.

Blame is no substitute for a strong economic foundation, and smart investments in our children and our workers.

We need to be both strategic and realistic about the policies that we pursue.

I would love a partnership to say we are not going to stand for that as a country.

I am concerned that the framework will stall and much needed improvements will fail to be implemented.

We are moving forward because we cannot wait because it is patients we are seeing. That is the focus of everything that we do.

Given the high levels of leadership turnover at BIE and IHS, one of GAO's recommendations for both agencies is to develop contingency and succession planning for key positions.

I just want to say the GAO listing this as a high risk opportunity is a chance for us to work together...