I believe we need to strengthen and invest in critical infrastructure like the health care system as a key way to create jobs here at home and to protect our most vulnerable citizens.

These cuts and proposed changes will have a devastating effect in my district and on each of those providers I mentioned who will lose critical funding in FY13 and FY14, translating into further loss of jobs and lifesaving medical cuts for…

We cannot afford to wait that long, and the millions of individuals and families in need of a job can't wait either.

If our goal is a better economy--education is how we get there.

New Mexico has one of the highest hunger or food insecurity rates in the country.

I would love for the Department to entertain that flexibility, and given that I have very little time left...

This project is part of a larger plan to not only upgrade and extend high-speed broadband access across the State but transform our State's economy.

These areas either do not have high-speed access to the internet or it is available only at speeds that are insufficient for the bandwidth intensive applications essential for delivering programs such as telemedicine, distance learning…

I certainly hope that we can find more common ground as we talk about the commonalities and the kind words that I just read, which I agree with wholeheartedly.

Absolutely. Let's make sure we're doing our part, as well.

Absolutely. Let's make sure that we're doing our part as well.

Sequestration threatens damaging cuts for New Mexico's national labs, military facilities, and border security. If implemented, those cuts will be very damaging, I believe, to our national security.

I believe the sequester's across-the-board cuts, including the 9.4-percent cut facing the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) weapons account, will hamper important stockpile stewardship work across the country.

The impact of sequestration would be disruptive and destructive to DHS, its missions, and our Nation's security and economy.

Sequestration would negatively affect the mission readiness and capabilities of the men and women on our front lines.

It will not make a damn bit of difference who wins the majority in 2014.

We then break faith with our troops and the men and women in uniform if this takes hold.

It is clear from your testimony that sequestration will have very real threats to our national security.