And when you pointed to younger women and minority women, I will tell you that Native American and Hispanic and African-American women in New Mexico were critical to our ability to repeal an antiquated criminalization of abortion and…

I cannot believe that, in the year of our lord 2022, we`re talking about free and essentially state property states for women.

If we need more primary care doc access and more primary care services to women in general, putting an infusion of money that should stay in the wake of Roe v. Wade into IHS clinics and services is the way in which you would ultimately…

I thank the chairman for yielding time. Across this country, we shed tears for the children who are killed, for the parents who are killed, for the girlfriends who are killed. In this Chamber, we shed tears for the parents and the fathers…

I thank Chairman Scott and Ranking Member Keller from the State of Pennsylvania for their support of this much-needed legislation. Alcohol and substance misuse is a devastating issue across the country and on college campuses. It steals…

like many of my constituents in New Mexico, I am a gun owner. I have a sincerely held respect of law- abiding gun ownership. Many of my own most cherished memories involve the responsible use of a firearm to feed my family and to forge…

I want to pick up on the time remaining to me about the importance of purchasing that fresh produce made in dairy locally.

I am actually told that there is no word for hunger or poverty in Keres, or other indigenous languages because no one would be left hungry or without food or what they need to survive.

Right now, currently Native Americans have some of the highest rates of food insecurity and the highest rates of diabetes.

We know that we have to take action as quickly as possible.

Part of being able to take effective action on climate change requires that we know that the methods and the tactics that we're using to tackle emissions and sinks is actually effective.

My legislation would allow an increase for reimbursement rates for Bureau-funded schools.

I am reintroducing the Tribal Nutrition Improvement Act to make sure tribes can administer directly food assistance programs.

Obviously, this is the most important and pressing question of the day is how do we meet our goal of reducing our carbon emissions by 2035, 2040 so that we don't cross this catastrophic tipping point?

I urge my colleagues to support this call for a formal apology and thank these young leaders for their advocacy.

We need to ensure that we are protecting the rights of Native children and families.

Mr. Chairman, thank you very much, Vice Chair Murkowski, thank you both for holding this important hearing today to examine the legacy of Federal Indian boarding school policies and to support legislation that moves us in the right…

As a commissioner in Maine, Chief Francis was right, everything led back to boarding school, everything, because that is where the first disruption took place of our families.