New Mexico has some of the worst poverty rates in the Nation. In fact, half of our population is Medicaid eligible.

Congress must not take our treaty and trust responsibilities lightly.

We ask you to protect funding for the Department of Energy's Tribal Energy Loan Guarantee Program.

I urge you to fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund at the newly-reauthorized $900 million level to conserve irreplaceable lands and improve outdoor recreation.

If one group of people on this planet knows how to stretch the dollar, it is us.

The shutdown illustrated the importance of providing funds to Indian Country in some form of advance.

In 2000, the FTC recommended that Congress enact a consumer internet privacy legislation.

I am pleased to be leading a bipartisan bill in the House to authorize advanced appropriations for the Indian Health Services.

The underfunding of tribal law enforcement and justice systems directly contributes to Native Americans experiencing one of the Nation's highest rates of crime and victimization in the United States.

We would like to ask for additional funding to help us with that.

The funding needs of American Indians and Alaskan Natives on reservations and in urban areas must be a priority to begin to work towards fully honoring the Federal government's unique government-to-government relationship and trust…

There is a terrific opportunity with the negotiations that come up next year to redo the 2007 interim shortage sharing guidelines.

The DCP has to get across the finish line.

When Chevron tells us that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is right... I think the debate is over.

CO2 does, in fact, fertilize plants. But it causes a whole series of other problems.

That statement is not scientifically accurate.

This cannot be the only place in America where Americans citizens who have, under treaty rights, been promised their healthcare do not have it available to them.

I urge you to make equitable and non-discretionary Federal funding available directly to tribal nations.