I think one of the things we need to be doing is working with individual National Forests and the Bureau of Land Management in these various districts to make sure that while we're doing some good things on the access front, that we're not…

If the agency would do their job managing our lands we wouldn't have to pursue these types of proposals.

Dwindling access to public lands remains the greatest threat to American sportsmen.

Thank you for holding this important oversight hearing on the impact of catastrophic disasters on Indian Country.

I just want to say both of these bills are really an example, a positive example, of how we can work together to produce energy more effectively on this committee.

When there aren't enough jobs to go around, do we tell these kids and these families, 'I am sorry, you will be hungry'?

But those don't require work programs.

So let's focus on the work requirements.

In New Mexico, you have managed to cut TANF benefits and reduce the number of participants in the program by 35 percent.

Mr. President, when Congress unanimously passed the bipartisan William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act back in 2008 to strengthen Federal trafficking laws and ensure that unaccompanied and undocumented…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Refugee Crisis

I completely disagree with you about that.

I think it is important that this Committee be clear that when we talk about flexibility and reform, and it sounds like it is a good thing, but in reality it could mean kicking off the very people we are trying to protect.

I think every New Mexican would love that every able-bodied adult would have meaningful employment.

we are now the most food insecure for children in the country and nearly the most food insecure for adults in the country.

It seems to me that you have found many ways to have flexibility in the programs and make it difficult to enroll and to reach as few people as possible.

Madam President, I am pleased that today we were able to put aside the partisan politics and vote for what was right for the American people. I hope my colleagues will also vote for the final bill. We must protect American jobs and…

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