the Department of the Interior has recently finalized a number of important rules that will both promote clean energy and also ensure stronger protections for our public lands and waters while holding fossil fuel industry accountable.

you have shown in no uncertain terms that our public lands and waters are no longer a breeding ground for corporate polluter greed.

I'm sick and tired of not getting the truth and people dying that are just trying to farm.

The natural resources bills that we are dealing with here today, as I pointed out, are a great gift to big mining corporations and overturn decades of work by local organizations and by the public in these areas who want to see their lands…

It's unfortunate, but hardly surprising, that the Trump White House is now making highly misleading claims that the president is 'fighting for Indian Country,' on the eve of an election, when this administration's record is one of repeated…

Now, one concern that I have that it appears this investigation has shed light on is that it's more clear that oil and gas companies are not acting on their own with enough urgency.

your management of our national parks, our treasures, has been exemplary.

Well, these hearings are always a very interesting fever dream, but I am hoping that we can bring it to a conclusion soon.

the influence of dark money at the Department of the Interior has never been more apparent than it was under the Trump administration.

It gives donations to conservative candidates like Donald Trump.

I think it is bizarre to talk about the influence of dark money on policy without identifying that we actually have two great examples here in front of us today.

Yet, here we find ourselves today in a hearing where my colleagues are trying to manufacture a scandal tying Secretary Haaland to environmental groups.

There is a fundamental difference between having differences of opinion over policy and what direction an agency should take, and legally binding ethics laws about what those in power do with those positions of power, what access they…

How do we stop this? We have seen the same kinds of abuses during the Trump administration.

This is about protecting tribal sacred sites that are critical to our communities.

I hope we can get back to working for the American people.

I think it is important to be clear on what perspectives people are representing when they are in front of us in the public discourse.

President Trump, who has literally spent most of his life involved in pay-to-play scandals.