And I`ll be back on the floor of the United States Senate in just a few short weeks to vote on important legislation and to consider a Supre...
disparate impact is also prohibited under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and that was part of the intent of the legislation.
this bill is called the Environmental Justice, right? That we are focused on making sure that everybody has justice in the same sense of acc...
This policy and any policy that is truly focused on EJ, we will continue fighting for it.
We exploded an atomic bomb here, and the people who were exposed to that have not been able to get compensation.
I know how hard it is to access that Federal funding.
I really appreciated the meeting that we had here in my office last week.
I join you, the Navajo and the Pueblo leaders, in striving to find the important balance.
I led the inclusion of additional funding in the House-passed appropriations bill for cultural studies.
we have to pass the Violence Against Women Act. And so I urge my colleagues in the Senate to pass that bill urgently.
one of the most important recommendations that came out of that work was about data and cross-jurisdictional sharing of data.
Each case number represents a life and a story and a tear in the fabric of our communities.
I very much look forward to working with this Committee and my colleagues to get the Violence Against Women Act passed in the Senate.
the crisis of human trafficking and particularly of missing and murdered Indigenous relatives and women is one of my top priorities.
I think it is really crucial that we acknowledge the history of the United States and its policies, and how that has disproportionately impa...
this is a crisis not only in New Mexico's Indigenous communities but across the United States and across the world.
What are the changes you think could make it easier for organizations and communities to apply and manage those grants?
Our Tribes and Pueblos are working to address the impacts of climate change, to maintain and revitalize our traditional agricultural practic...
