I urge my colleagues to support his nomination.

It is a great privilege to introduce President Biden's nominee to be Chairman of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, Javier Saade.

The international community's sanctions and economic work with respect to Russia have resulted in quite impressive outcomes.

how do we translate science data information into useful tools and resources that our communities can actually use.

We need tools to be able to inform our communities so that they can make those kinds of decisions at the granular level.

this hearing couldn't possibly be more timely with the release of the IPCC's adaptation report that came out last week

we have to actually engage and prepare our communities for the change that's already here.

water is ground zero for climate change.

the American Southwest is experiencing the worst drought conditions that have occurred in over 1,200 years

New Mexico is home to 23 Indigenous communities, tribes, and pueblos, and our tribes and pueblos have been here since time immemorial.

I actually believe this is a great place for private-sector development as well because the Federal Government will never be able to provide that fine granularity of products and services.

We have to take existing data sets that already exist, translate those into meaningful tools that our communities can actually use.

I think that it is a new day in Washington, and your appointment to this role, your amazing expertise and service, and your willingness to step up and play this role is so crucial, especially at this historical moment.

Thank you, Chair Grijalva, and thank you to the witnesses and this whole discussion that we are having about the topic in terms of the roles and the importance of tribes actually participating and managing their own lands, which are also…

Ensuring that our tribes have not only a seat at the table, but that their knowledge, practices, and priorities are really at the center of that work is so critically important.

The crucial work of decolonizing, repatriating, co-managing, and ensuring that we are creating collaborative ways to do all of this work is really particularly crucial, I think, right now.

If you think about in the historic trajectory of our country, I think many Americans would be shocked to know that there are still rules and regulations on our books across our Federal agencies that do not recognize that our Federal lands…

The conversation has dramatically changed, and how the voices of the pueblo leadership... are now actually a part of the narrative.