I rise to call on the President to stop holding the government hostage and trying to force taxpayers to pay for his border wall--a wall that would be ineffective and wasteful and that is rejected by the American people. President Trump…

In January 2019, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham issued Executive Order 2019-003 Addressing Climate Change and Energy Waste Prevention.

thank you for the recognition. I rise on the Senate floor as a Senator from a border State--a State that borders with the country of Mexico--with a message from my State's proud border communities: We will not stand by as the President…

What it would do is there is a national crime victims fund. It is $3 billion a year.

We are very, very encouraged to hear that.

The important thing about this hearing, now, I think is now that every tribal entity should know that these resources exist, that you can use them.

I believe that we need a new protocol, when it comes to missing and murdered indigenous women.

Today's hearing is an important step toward fully understand the scope and working to address the crisis in Indian Country.

Thank you to all the witnesses for your testimony.

It is clear that States have a role in ensuring Native Americans are not overlooked in the criminal justice system.

the best practices in law enforcement are to have about 3 officers for 1,000 people, [yet] there's only 0.14 agents for 1,000 reservation residents.

I know Deb will bring her commitment to ending violence against Native women with her to D.C. next Congress.

We were able to secure $132 million, and that is for fiscal year 2018.

It took a really long time for Ashley's name.

In my opinion, this is totally unacceptable.

It seems, also, that the Chinese model of development in Africa is something that we should be thinking about as an opportunity.

I think we have good bipartisan support from the entire Committee.

I think that we are falling down on our engagement with African leaders.