These are both important industries to the economic benefit of citizens in New Mexico, but I can see that left alone, it could take too long to create an environment where competing for water resources means choosing.

Do you see advances or areas that Congress could be looking to, much like my colleague talked about, in investment strategies and incentive strategies?

Agriculture and the oil and gas sector are really important industries, certainly, in my state as well as for most of the Members on this Committee.

I think it is very important that both the Chairman and the Vice Chairman work together and work through these issues.

But given the situation in our State, our governor determined that all, 100 percent, of our behavioral health providers were engaged in billing practices that rose to the level of a credible allegation of fraud and so suspended payments to…

I would like her to go back and help us improve on the recovery progress.

It has taken us 3 years to get this administration to require the Human Services Department to repay these providers the millions of dollars that they are--but they are defunct.

Can you talk about that a little?

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And I am going to kind of go off topic, and I apologize kind of.

people lost their lives in my State and continue to do so.

Given that 3 years has gone by--and I apologize for interrupting you, but this--as a physician, I was a cabinet secretary for health, this is untenable.

I think it is important that we all work together to get to the meat of what is going on here that there has been a disaster and it has had a big impact.

This is really a straightforward bill. It would allow Cochiti Pueblo to acquire State trust lands adjacent to the Pueblo and restore its ancestral homelands.

I agree that someone senior from the EPA needs to attend this hearing.

I actually introduced legislation this morning with Senator Inhofe to look at granting rapid acquisition authorities for directed-energy weapon systems.

I think that directed energy has suffered from being--from always being just 25 years off. I think we're now not 25 years off.

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