It is an honor to be able to serve alongside you, and welcome to our first Subcommittee of Oversight hearing.

This is not only a national security emergency for the United States. This is about making sure that we can make good on our responsibility to ensure that we are not passing a global tipping point in climate change over the next decade.

I hope and am optimistic that we will find opportunities for bipartisan collaboration.

The issue of the early childhood education by a vote of 70 to 30, New Mexico has not targeted to put more resources into our earliest--you know, the babies right? That is where we need to invest, because we know that has such an amazing…

the failure of Twitter and other social media companies to moderate political disinformation not only fueled its use in election tampering in 2018 but allowed for election denialism to run rampant in 2020.

I have traveled to every corner of my district, and New Mexicans are depending on us to defend our democracy and to ensure that we are holding not only those who are committing waste, fraud, and abuse accountable, but ourselves.

we should really treat members of the public who come before this body with the due respect that they deserve

This fails tribes, the 1872 law does.

So clearly, we must come together as a committee to stand up and protect our country from foreign election interference and disinformation.

I think if you keep those three questions at the forefront of what you are doing, we will get to that future that you described in your comments.

So, whose free expression are we protecting at the expense of whose safety, and whose safety are we willing to allow to go to the wind so that people can speak freely?

The Trump administration massively expanded the use of private, for-profit prisons.

The system is terribly broken, and that is why we need bipartisan reform.

I thank Representative Issa for that great summary of the importance of this land to the Pala Band, and the fact that we will actually probably see some economic benefit because they know how to be good stewards of the land. They know what…

It is truly a humanitarian crisis, and it is a crisis that has been manufactured, reproduced over and over again.

We should not be playing politics with people's lives. This is serious. People's lives are in the balance.

Our government is failing. The system is failing. We need action.

It was the humane--inhumane policies of the previous administration that have contributed to this crisis.