Jared Huffman

The Department of the Interior does not have your exploration.

I don't think corporations had human rights.

We all share a commitment to protecting this land and we would welcome the opportunity to work collaboratively with you and the Gwich'in people.

This is about perhaps an age-old human quality: greed. But it is not about human rights.

I believe it is hyperbole to say that H.R. 1146 would reverse quality of life gains. It would not undo progress that has already been made.

I want to urge that we be careful to stick to the actual truth and the facts.

It's nice to see the Minority care about indigenous peoples. However, it seems they only care about Native peoples when the issue involves Native corporations.

It is too bad that it is limited to Native corporations, who sell out in multi-million-dollar ways to big oil and gas companies.

Representative Huffman said this was a choice between big oil or indigenous peoples. It is not, and you are wrong.

According to public records, ASRC spent $590,000 lobbying on oil and gas issues in 2017.

It is not low impact, it is not a tiny corner of the Coastal Plain. This is a 200-mile network of roads that will completely destroy its current character.

I urge Congress to pass H.R. 1146, and protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge forever for present and future generations.

it is the policy of the United States to ``sustain'' the Coastal Plain of ANWR as a ``natural treasure for the current generation of Americans'' and ``to honor and respect the human rights of the Gwich'in.''

Mr. Huffman, you do not have to tell the Inupiat people, who have lived on this land for generations, the importance of our homelands--we see it, we know it, we depend on it, we are a part of it.

It saddens me that this taking of indigenous land or disparaging of our self-determination does not seem to meet the threshold of a human rights issue to the authors of this legislation.

Thank you for your leadership in moving this important legislation forward.

Metropolitan strongly supports Congress taking action to enact legislation memorializing the terms of the Seven Colorado River Basin State Drought Contingency Plan Agreements.

The DCP represents exactly the sort of cooperative efforts of all seven Colorado River Basin states working collaboratively.

The DCP must be in place before August, when the Department of Interior begins its reservoir operations planning for 2020.

it is not a place without people; it never has been--it has been continuously occupied by the Inupiat people

your bill would repeal an opportunity that the Inupiat people have fought for decades to achieve

The process took a significant step forward with the recent signing ceremony held on March 18, 2019.

I want to thank the witnesses for their valuable testimony.

This bill would provide financial resources for research to develop and test technologies to reduce entanglements and vessel collisions to help the right whale.

Is the Agency proactively trying to address issues pertaining to entanglements and ship strikes in order to save the species?