I thank Chairwoman Haaland for her testimony as well, an important statement, and associate myself with her remarks.

We need many more than two--a district, a territory, and three states to be leading on renewable energy.

I hope that there is a recommendation to do that as well.

I want you to refer to us not as the great state of New Mexico but as the Clean Energy State the next time you come to Santa Fe.

the present responsibility is very important, and I am not sure that every Member of Congress understands the importance of the responsibility that we have as Members of Congress to carry out that trust responsibility, to deal with the…

I have made many trips to DC, and every single trip that I have gone to, I have invited Udall, I have invited Heinrich, I have invited Lujan, and that was 4 years ago it started.

We must work diligently to ensure future generations of New Mexicans and Americans are able to enjoy the great and tangible wealth of our natural resources.

The best response to a finite, problematic fossil fuel industry is to pivot to renewable energy.

I will take every single dollar for early childhood education so that I can beat every state in the Nation.

They should be doing everything. This imbalanced, unfair approach leaves the burden to a regulatory environment just in the states.

New Mexico became the 18th state to join the U.S. Climate Alliance.

During the last 60-day legislative session... the oil and gas industry did not oppose that legislative effort.

I think both the extension and adding New Mexico as an amended state to include it would make a tremendous difference in our state.

I intend to lead a New Mexico where we take our environmental destiny into our own hands.

So, in hindsight, would we have allowed the largest uranium mine to open on Laguna? I think that people would think twice about that.

Thank you very much for speaking your truth.

It is an environmental injustice.

We should not have to suffer every time the price of oil goes down.