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New Mexico is a strong leader in aviation technology, and this legislation will help ensure our state continues to shape the next generation of innovation.

Social Security is a promise that must be kept. The Trump Administration’s threats to Social Security and skyrocketing costs require common sense steps to expand benefits and ensure financial stability.

Social Security is a lifeline for thousands of New Mexicans. The Trump administration’s cuts and threats to the program are abandoning our seniors and people with disabilities.

The tariffs raised prices for families and contributed to core inflation.

With no clear national security nexus, we question whether the DOE utilized emergency DPA authorities with the intent of preempting or subverting valid local health ordinances and environmental regulations.

Congress has never appropriated funds to the DOE’s DPA account with the intent of propping up a dying industry or financing a purely commercial project.

We do not believe this satisfies the statutory definition of ‘national defense’ or ‘critical infrastructure protection’ under the DPA and that there is no legally sufficient, data-driven nexus between civilian coal exports and immediate…

The DPA was intended to scale up domestic industrial capabilities to meet urgent military or national emergency needs; therefore, its invocation to construct a commercial, civilian export facility intended primarily to serve foreign…

We urge the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation to go back to the drawing board and work directly with tribes and states on a new proposal that actually improves the consultation process without undermining the rights and voices of…

We support efforts to modernize and improve the Section 106 review process, but that cannot come at the expense of meaningful tribal consultation or the expertise of the people who have protected these places for generations.

Let’s be clear: there is a difference between making the consultation process work better and cutting tribes out of the process.

This proposal disrespects the expertise that states and tribes have in protecting our national history and culture, and it erases the requirement for the federal government to meaningfully consult with tribal governments before they take…

These draft regulations by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation are unacceptable — eliminating tribal consultation as we know it.

I take solace in knowing the success that that movement made … historic efforts of people just like you to come together to put the pressure on to explain what was really at stake: our ability to have our voice heard through casting a…

This is just as important as 1964. We have to remember this heritage. The task that they accomplished was harder than this task.

I can just tell you, as somebody who's old enough to remember the '60s and the civil rights efforts of my parents and the fight for civil liberties, I'm inspired just to be in the room with you, because it gives us confidence as we now…

I’m sorry that your schedule apparently didn’t permit us to meet before this confirmation hearing, but I hope and expect we’ll find time to meet soon after today.

With this bill, we will reverse a harmful one-size-fits-all approach that overlooks our smallest and most rural communities — and allow us to meet the individual needs of South Texas and beyond.