Two pieces of legislation have been introduced this Congress to resolve Puerto Rico's political status.

Congress has a responsibility to play a constructive role in the resolution of Puerto Rico's political status.

We must work effectively together with the executive branch and the island's elected officials through this process.

a Representative in Congress from the State of Arizona.

Your leadership in developing the Moving Forward Act (H.R. 2) to address our nation's failing infrastructure has been instrumental in laying the groundwork to Build Back Better.

I am not against those other regions, but we always hear that we need to reinvent our economy in the coalfields of central Appalachia.

The environmental damage Resolution Cooper can have on this area impacts tribes in Arizona and the water sources of the local community.

Rio Tinto has a long-established partnership to supply copper to China--they repeatedly stated--and at a hearing refused to say what percentage of the copper generated from Federal lands would be retained and processed in the United States.

Our union opposes the legislation under consideration today, the Save Oak Flat Act (H.R. 1884), introduced by Rep. Grijalva.

This will remove all of the environmental, socioeconomic, water and cultural mitigations from the table, but will not stop them from mining.

it will likely require an Act of Congress to stop the Resolution Copper Mine and save the Apache religion, our culture and way of life, and the region's water supply for future generations.