Ann Kirkpatrick: “Running a power line doesn't really make sense, but if you have stand-alone energy resources for those communities, to…”

SNAP and our Federal safety net programs are a hand-up, not a hand-out, and many of us on this Committee once utilized the program.

This can't continue. We have to ensure that our workforce has access to good-paying union jobs here in the United States, and we must prioritize clean energy solutions at the same time.

So we have large swaths of land, Tribal land, especially in northern Arizona, that the power lines run right over their Tribal land and that they are not attached to the grid.

I think the fact that these groups are working together now and collaborating is huge progress.