I'm grateful that the rule has since been temporarily waived for some western states, but farmers and ranchers will face similar challenges in the future as extreme droughts only grow as a problem.

Now crop insurance is an important risk management tool that farmers and ranchers across this nation rely on to ensure their livelihoods.

But legislation that addresses lands, like the Wounded Knee legislation, for example, I think it is important...

Thank you so much, Madam Chair, and thank you for the testimony this morning.

We really want to take what happened in these horrible 2 years of suffering through this pandemic, and not just forget about them, but learn from them.

Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American Secretary, has made restoration of tribal homelands one of her top priorities.

UIOs were essentially created by Congress to ensure that the trust obligation was met in urban settings.

What we are talking about here is the United States Department of Labor.

As a Head Start alumnus, I know the value of high-quality early childhood education and believe that Congress should be strengthening its support for childcare in this country, not taking steps backward.

I hope that we all agree is that the wages that early childhood educators make is very, very low.

I think that is one show of success when we measure access to these programs and what it means as well.

These low market rates keep wages low, revenues low, and supply low.

Under the leadership of our Governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, New Mexico has pursued a bold, transformational vision.

Now, New Mexico became the first state in the Nation, along with D.C., to use this alternative methodology to set rates.

Head Start, pre-K, and childcare programs have a profound return on investment, as has been pointed out today.

Madam Speaker, I stand before you today reporting for duty to our country, to our communities, to our Constitution, and most importantly, for New Mexico. As you can see, Madam Speaker, unfortunately, I can't say the same for my Republican…

I had the tremendous opportunity last fall to go join the rest of the delegation and both pueblo and Navajo leaders at Chaco Canyon with Secretary Haaland.

they are a moral and an actual legal trust responsibility of the Federal Government to make good on our promises to protect these lands for Indigenous communities, and to do proper consultation.