We appreciate the immediate one-year pause in new fossil fuel leasing.

This disrespect for our sacred sites and their desecration at the hands of our Federal Government is deeply painful.

As Americans, we all should be horrified that the Federal Government has so little respect for our religious and cultural values.

The Federal Government has unquestionably assumed the legal and moral responsibility to protect our sacred sites.

It is imperative that our country aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and public lands and waters are both a significant source of emissions.

We strongly support an approach to making public lands and waters a part of climate solutions that recognizes the important role of conservation in mitigating the effects of climate change.

Today, we stand together with the Tohono O'odham Nation and many other tribal nations who aren't here today.

Any departure from this policy flies in the face of established political and societal norms and violates our civil and human rights.

This bears repeating. The President threatens to destroy Iran's cultural sites and, yes, that would be a tremendous loss to our world. It is considered an international war crime when he states this. But how is what is happening here on…

Those of us in Indian Country know that when Federal agencies fail or refuse to engage in tribal consultation on a project, mistrust can result.

You mention in your testimony that the Department will strive to 'provide effective collaboration and establish an avenue for the Department's land management interests to be considered in ongoing border security efforts with DHS and the…

If we shut down oil and gas drilling in New Mexico today, we will have to shut down our schools tomorrow.

It is wrong. It is sacrilegious. And it is not who we are as Americans.

No waivers for tribal consultation.

As one of the first Native women in Congress, I find it my duty to speak up for Indian Country and the Administration's lack of respect for the Federal trust responsibility we have to Native nations.

But a sacred site that has been blasted, it can never be made whole again.

if my colleagues from the other side of the aisle want to protect people with preexisting conditions, they should drop the lawsuit.

There is a reason that most of us in this Congress has--have opposed Medicaid block grants. These are devastating programs.