Rubén Gallego

The health of Native children is on the line when they return to school. The health of teachers and staff is on the line.

While this Committee has often struggled with this Administration's frequent refusal to provide timely and informed testimony, the BIE's refusal to be here today is a new low.

The general problem we have is not just with contractors in emergencies. It is in general just a lack of trust and confidence in PREPA's ability to execute.

I thank my friend, Committee on Foreign Affairs Chairman Engel, for his comments, and I thank him for his effort to make this amendment better. This amendment includes all the Foreign Affairs Committee's edits, and it is through his…

Thank you, Leticia. And I just want to check. Do we have any other new Members that joined since we started?

One of the basic things we can do is bring broadband to Indian Country, if anything, both for obviously economic reasons, educational reasons.

Native American perspectives on mental health and healing take on a new significance in the midst of an ongoing pandemic.

This is our Subcommittee's first virtual hearing.

The Seminole Tribe has been the only government in Indian Country that has been approved for disaster declaration by the President.

This is a historic hearing. It is our Subcommittee's first virtual hearing.

I applaud each of you for your work. I know the future of your tribes and our country are brighter because of your leadership.

Well, your assessment was totally off.

So, this is all one big coincidence that at that point, this is when the violent resistance had finally swelled...

Of course, you are going to meet with violent resistance. You threw pepper balls and you were batoning people.

Your story isn't factual.

On June 1, by your testimony, you had largely peaceful protesters up until the time you actually forcibly tried to remove them.

Did you have any conversations with Attorney General Barr on site?

But de-escalating the violence does not mean sending men swinging their batons and using pepper spray or CS gas.

But why didn't you? It actually makes more logical sense for you to wait until 7 p.m.

Who ordered the clearing on June 1? Who told the men to advance?

The bottom line is the rightful demonstrations that we are witnessing in the wake of the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other Black lives taken by the police should never have been met with the deadly force from law…

Tear gas is a chemical weapon banned in war, and it should never again be used against demonstrators, but especially not during a pandemic.

This was unlawful. Any officer could have seen that the Australian journalists were, in fact, journalists.

Thank you for participating in the Black Lives Matter protests, because it does matter.

That is not dramatization; that is fact. That is exactly what happened.