I think tribes and Indigenous folk are ahead of us, in terms of how they see sovereignty.

The attributes that qualify her as Secretary of the Interior--compassion, experience, intelligence, and fair-mindedness--is precisely what our country needs at this moment in time.

There is little evidence that there is any progress being made on those negotiations.

I supported Secretary Haaland's nomination because we need someone with her experience, her compassion, her intelligence, and her fair-mindedness.

I completely support the President's budget request.

I want to associate myself with the comments Ms. Stansbury made regarding climate change.

I believe that the DOI has been chronically underfunded for a long, long time.

Compassion, not the pursuit of a quick buck, is what defines this country at its best.

These compacts are up for renegotiation right now.

the faster we move, the less we are going to have to spend as governments dealing with this situation, because each passing year, it gets more and more expensive.

the whole point of this discussion... is the reliance on empirical information, fact, and science, and that reliance should not be a threat to anybody.

When we passed legislation in 2018 making Hawaii the first state to commit to achieving a carbon negative economy by 2045, it was passed unanimously with all Republicans and Democrats in support.