It is clear this Administration will not uphold its trust responsibility for tribes.

The fact that the Federal Government is continuing to blast this area with human bone fragments of several tribes in the 21st century is barbarous.

The fact that the Federal Government has continued to blast this area with human bone fragments of several tribes in the 21st century is, quite frankly, barbarous.

It is about trust responsibility. And it is about abuse of power.

None of that is true. None of that is true, and I think that, if I may, Mr. Chairman, that this discussion has to focus on the jurisdiction this Committee has in terms of Indian Country and the protection of those laws that were put in…

Our bill addresses both sides of the problem, increasing our public lands' ability to absorb, while decreasing what they emit, with the goal of getting to net zero emissions by 2040.

the Administration is blasting through all of the legal protections that were carefully designed to protect the rights and interests of tribes as well as all other Americans.

The necessary debate about the border wall and my opposition to it on many levels is a debate that we have been having and we will continue to have.

The Federal Government owes our government, and the governments of the local communities and states around us, more respect.

I appreciate Congressman Westerman's proposal, and I welcome Republicans into what is hopefully a new chapter for their party to begin to focus on climate solutions and not climate denial.

Preservation of the history and culture of the Tohono O'odham people is not just important to the Tohono O'odham Nation--it is important to the preservation of the history and culture of the United States as a whole.