I want to work with every stakeholder and every policymaker to make sure that New Mexico gets what it needs to end this persistent poverty in our rural and frontier areas.

I hope, reach a favorable decision to help New Mexico's dairy producers, given our dairy loss related to the huge snowstorm.

I haven't gotten any Federal support to deal with that, and the state support is gone.

New Mexico often has a tough time in the President's budget request, so additional discretionary funds that this committee provides and your hard work is really critical in my State.

I am very relieved that we have continued the New Mexico Acacias Program.

I think other Senators have mentioned her here. I have worked with her extensively.

The nominations we are considering today provide an excellent opportunity for the United States to continue to work closely with the international community.

Wildlife trafficking is a real scourge.

I was pleased to see the budget request year quadruples the European Security Initiative to $3.4 billion.

I hope we don't have it too soon, but a spring runoff, which means that all that sediment gets moved again.

data security is an absolute necessity for [the military], and that, I'm not a believer in back doors or a single technical approach to what is a complex problem.

Stormwater regulation needs to have the flexibility to make sure that local managers can suggest alternatives that make sense for an arid region.

Thank you very much, Chairman Barrasso, for holding this hearing.

We have five well-qualified candidates with impressive resumes being considered today.

Congress authorized the 'Third Offset' initiative last year to accelerate the fielding of systems that would help counter the technological gains of our adversaries.

Congress has a vital interest in international institutions to promote economic growth.

I appreciate that answer.

It is also very clear that because of the budget box that we have put the Army in, that we are not modernizing at a level necessary to stay ahead of our adversaries the way that we have in the past.