Rubén Gallego

Peaceful, unarmed protesters were met with a DOI police response far more aggressive, far more militarized, and far less necessary...

Talk about defund the police. Republicans in Congress were eager to do exactly that.

These type of very heavy-handed, SWAT-like teams with non-DoJ agencies being used as the tip of the spear for Federal law enforcement.

Apparently those concerns disappeared when Donald Trump became President.

The only reason you would actually move in that manner is for pure intimidation, which is not the purpose of a deterrent front

I am writing to express my deepest gratitude for your actions to protect Oak Flat from irreparable environmental and cultural impacts.

As a former miner, could you please give us your views on the decision to approve panel caving without analyzing other methods in full detail?

In your testimony, you also mention specifically that the DEIS fails to fully analyze the fact that Resolution Copper has planned to pump 250 billion gallons of water for its proposed mines.

Isn't the obligation of the Federal Government, then, to protect it, in your opinion, or is there an obligation for them to do that?

Congress has the opportunity to uphold the Federal trust responsibility by protecting Oak Flat.

We ask you to carefully consider and keep this in mind as this process continues.

The land this mine would destroy includes the Chi'chil Bildagoteel Historic District, known more broadly by its English translation, 'Oak Flat.'

We are here again today to discuss the disregard for the rights of Native Americans and the destruction of their sacred sites--this time for the construction of a new dangerous and destructive copper mine near the town of Superior, Arizona.

All in all, this mine is an environmental and human rights disaster in the making, and the land exchange should not be allowed to move forward.

We are here again today to discuss a disregard for the rights of Native Americans and the destruction of their sacred sites.

Unfortunately, the destruction of those sacred sites is not a unique case.

Today, we will examine the detrimental effects that the proposed mining operations will have on tribal historical, cultural, and sacred sites located in Southeastern Arizona.

I really would hope that the committee would work with me to ensure that, you know, we don't allow Congress' voice to be not heard again.

The fact that I think the process was just tossed aside from the 2017 NDAA, it is just--you know, for me, it is quite galling.

I have been in support of the A-10 Warthog when I was--when the Obama administration tried to get rid of it.

The best one, the cheapest one, the strongest one, certainly if something ever happens, especially in Russia... is still the A-10.

I don't want to be using a billion-dollar platform to support infantrymen. That is not smart, and it is just not a smart use of our money.

This Congress, the Senate, has said that until we see something that is a better replacement for the A-10, that the A-10 is not going anywhere.

Did Secretary Esper or other aspects of the administration at least talk to you all before they went and did this cut?

How is this--how is the reprogramming anything other than arbitrary and capricious if the Navy is disagreeing?