Can you briefly explain what digital assets are generally used for and how they are regulated?

As of now, there is a gap in the oversight of digital assets. This poses a danger to the American consumers and could threaten the resiliency of our financial markets if left unchecked.

As I said earlier, talk is cheap, and the Biden administration, they have a Memorandum on Tribal Consultation and Strengthening Nation-to-Nation Relationships.

I had the great pleasure last summer to be out in south central New Mexico and visit the Mescalero Apache Tribe.

It seems like if we produce that energy domestically, maybe part of it off of the Navajo Nation, that that would benefit families there.

the Biden administration is pursuing a 20-year ban on oil and gas development around Chaco Canyon.

It seems to me that the Biden administration has made just a unilateral decision without your input.

But why do you think the Biden administration refused to engage you in this decision-making process?

If we are serious about achieving more diverse and inclusive environmental policies, we must ensure that the communities impacted by those decisions are given a seat at the table.

At the end of 2021, inflation reached a 40-year high, increasing costs for American families.

The communities the environmental justice movement aims to include in the decision-making process, however, are the very ones being harmed by the Biden administration and its policies.

I would argue that, rather than the abstract, our focus should be on how environmental policies impact communities across the nation.

Actions mean more than just words. And, I think, from our witness testimony today and our Members' questions, we will see that the actions of my colleagues across the aisle are actually disenfranchising people rather than helping people.

Democrats have put things put for -- put forward ideas, they put forward legislation, but in the Senate, particularly it has been blocked by Republicans who have been unwilling to let some of these bills come to the floor for debate.

The bills you’re talking about in Arizona... affect Arizona voters, period.

the sky is not falling. Polls go up and down.

It is embarrassing that we, the adults in the room here on the Appropriations Committee, cannot get out of our own way.

If it fails, and it is not a question of, it is when, then it would severely make it such that essentially the Arkansas River would shut down.