This Committee agrees that we want to ensure that the Tribal HUD-VASH Demonstration Program is achieving maximum efficiency.

I would say again to my Chairman, it has been such a pleasure working with him. He is one of the most bipartisan Senators I know in the United States Senate.

You believe it weakens the trust responsibility to those tribes?

The state needs more investment in the programs slated to be cut by the proposed budget.

I am extremely disheartened by the cuts to programs that enhance our water security.

S. 1250 would impose sweeping reforms on the Indian Health Service, S. 1275 would reauthorize certain housing programs created by the Native American Housing and Self Determination Act, while imposing changes to that law, training and…

The economic costs of addiction are enormous--totaling more than $80 billion in 2013 from increased health care costs, higher rates of incarceration, and lost productivity.

Addiction to both heroin and prescription opioid pain relievers is a public health epidemic that is devastating families and communities across our Nation.

For years, without adequate treatment resources, communities in New Mexico have suffered through some of the highest rates of opioid and heroin addiction and overdose deaths in the Nation.

Over-prescription is partially responsible for the epidemic.

The economic costs of that addiction are incredible, totaling more than $80 billion in 2013.

Addiction to heroin and prescription opioid pain relievers is a public health epidemic that is devastating families and communities across the country.

Every day, 91 Americans die from opioid overdose.

When a community faces a public health crisis, it is not long before a State turns to the Medicaid program to stem the tide.

Every day, 91 Americans die from an opioid overdose.

For years without adequate treatment resources, communities in New Mexico have suffered through some of the highest rates of opioid and heroin addiction and overdose deaths in the Nation.

This budget with more than 60 percent of funds devoted to wildfire prevention and response is a dangerous step in that direction. It concerns me deeply.

I do not want New Mexico to lose her.