The future of our country, of our communities, and of our children depends on bipartisan action on this issue.

This is not only a national security emergency for the United States. This is about making sure that we can make good on our responsibility to ensure that we are not passing a global tipping point in climate change over the next decade.

Let me be clear. We cannot mine and permit our way out of this problem.

These issues that we cover in the Natural Resources Committee at large, and especially the oversight that we do in this Committee, are of great personal concern to me and to the communities that I represent.

A vital purpose of the farm bill is to provide a safety net to producers to ensure that they are able to protect their farms and livelihood.

We do not have the water that they do down in that beautiful part of America.

It is absolutely critical that our workers, our unions, and our communities have a strong voice in every aspect of how we plan those local, regional, and national economies.

I don't think anyone in this room wants to return to an era when we had rivers on fire, when smelters were poisoning children and communities across the country.

They weren't being listened to before ? so they weren't being listened to before.

the failure of Twitter and other social media companies to moderate political disinformation not only fueled its use in election tampering in 2018 but allowed for election denialism to run rampant in 2020.

So clearly, we must come together as a committee to stand up and protect our country from foreign election interference and disinformation.

I think if you keep those three questions at the forefront of what you are doing, we will get to that future that you described in your comments.

I have traveled to every corner of my district, and New Mexicans are depending on us to defend our democracy and to ensure that we are holding not only those who are committing waste, fraud, and abuse accountable, but ourselves.

So, whose free expression are we protecting at the expense of whose safety, and whose safety are we willing to allow to go to the wind so that people can speak freely?

we should really treat members of the public who come before this body with the due respect that they deserve

The issue of the early childhood education by a vote of 70 to 30, New Mexico has not targeted to put more resources into our earliest--you know, the babies right? That is where we need to invest, because we know that has such an amazing…

This fails tribes, the 1872 law does.

Our government is failing. The system is failing. We need action.