The question is: will legislation aid our communities' future survival or hinder it. I hope for all our sakes it will be the former.

Methane is more than 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide at trapping heat, and is responsible for about a quarter of the warming we are experiencing today.

Climate change poses an unprecedented threat to our communities and our environment.

Simply put, we must have legislation that clearly prioritizes investments in scalable projects like those mentioned today that reduce emissions at the source and address the historical harm and discrimination communities like mine have…

Climate change has forced us to live in a new normal, in which fires, floods, droughts, and hurricanes wreck our communities and our national heritage.

Right now, the EPA and Interior Department are run by former lobbyists for coal and oil companies.

I look forward to working with you and my colleagues to protect our public lands and to meet our obligations to our indigenous communities.

So we're here because we need answers to these injustices with reforms that restore and protect the voice of the American people and our democracy.

I want to recognize her leadership. I'm so grateful for the work that she's doing across America on behalf of the American people.

We've seen the diminishing and suppressing of voters. In many states across America in recent years, we saw polling places get closed, the shortening of voting hours.

Here's something to remember. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush all renewed and strengthened the Voting Rights Act.

The pain from this Trump shutdown is being felt deeply in every corner of my district in New Mexico and across America. We have farmers and ranchers that are unable to plan for their production. Tribal communities are facing disruptions in…

Senator Kaine is yielding to me to talk about the Interior Department in the bill. Let me just thank him for his vigilance. When we have 800,000 Federal employees across this country and their families hurting, he has been vigilant with…

I was unexpectedly detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 40. ____________________

New Mexicans are working tirelessly to provide for their families. They do not have the luxury of ignoring their bills until the President figures out what it takes to run a government. President Trump clearly does not understand the…

I rise today to talk about a New Mexico family who is severely impacted by the shutdown, and I think there are probably hundreds of thousands of families like this across the country. This is Leah Teresa Ornelas, her husband Ervie, and…

let me say to Senator Warner, my good friend from Virginia, who has an incredible empathy for the Federal workforce, we have the same thing in New Mexico, and to our good friend Senator Bennet from Colorado, we have Federal employees…

we are now in the third week of President Trump's government shutdown. This is yet another manufactured, unnecessary, and irresponsible crisis from this President. This one comes at a steep, steep cost for very real people. A government…