Great, thank you very much.

Were the closures that Senator Manchin asked about, were they closures, complete closures to the public including pedestrians and including fishing or is it only a closure to off road vehicle use or motorized access?

I think this is one of the things that makes this attractive is the per unit cost of doing a national preserve as a one off has proven to be incredibly expensive.

I think that's going to be very important just to make sure that those kind of cultural traditions are preserved as part of the fabric of this preserve moving forward.

Clovis is projected to run dry in 20 years.

The slow pace of Federal funding means that these towns may run out of water long before the pipeline is ever completed.

We need to do something to open the tap here.

Senator Baucus' rural water project bill has a particular project in New Mexico that's been in the works for a long time.

The communities in that area are in dire need.

Portales is expected to run out of ground water in about 10 years.

I actually proposed an amendment to the Republican budget that would fund HIS, which is woefully under-funded.

I am in a state that has got negative job growth, and I think the only state in the country.

I appreciate your responses about moving the economy and investing in jobs.

I want to just highlight a couple. So we have got 63.5 billion for the Administration.

The Rio Grande del Norte: One Hundred New Mexicans Speak for a Legacy, and urging support for H.R. 1241.

Letter to Rep. Bishop and Rep. Grijalva for the record in support of protecting the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument.

I would urge you to be clear and careful about those kinds of proposals.

I could not agree more that this has to be an investment in outcome and quality.