Climate action cannot wait, and we must take decisive action now to address both the causes of climate change and its impacts.

I hope the committee will look at this, as we have had a number of places around the country where there has been a direct conflict between taking land out of production to do renewable projects.

I am very appreciative of your mega construction project program that will have contractors and subcontractors make sure they create those jobs and invite our underrepresented workers, and that we also protect those civil rights.

Those range from closing polling places in Black and Latino communities, which would make those lines longer and much longer than the 30 minutes that we have proscribed in our act.

We saw voter intimidation and harassment tactics happening down in Las Cruces in Dona Ana County.

We know that is not how we do stuff here. So instead of litigation, we had legislation.

We also know that we still have problems in New Mexico. It is not that we are perfect, but it is that we are going to address those issues.

I think what you have just pointed out is that our job is to make it easier for voters to vote, whether it is in a Tribal election or a Federal election.

when you start to target people and it is this, you know, official target from the State or from the government, then it pushes people into the margins and it prevents people from participating in democracy, and that is why that protection…

One of the things I love in those Federalist Papers is that they say that Congress should be a perfect mirror portrait of what America is.

I too support and believe that we must abolish the filibuster.

Considering these and other attacks on our core democratic institutions, it is more important than ever that we act at the Federal level to protect voting rights.

We must keep working to protect and expand voting rights, because our democracy...depends on it.

We do have Federal legislation to address that, and we will continue to work on it.

We must work on that.

We are seeing suppression of Native votes across the country.

I am proud to be from a State that understands that voting rights are the foundation of our democracy and must be protected.

We need to make sure that we get those fifty Republicans or at least get--do away with the filibuster.