Rob Garcia

As a doctor, the health of my constituents is my top concern, and I have seen firsthand that we must do more to protect vulnerable communities from pollution and other environmental dangers.

I believe it is the Bisbee Queen's Copper Mines, is one of those big, big areas.

Chipping away government in order to make it as ineffective as possible, and then complaining that they can't do their job...

It has to look to strengthen and enforce the laws that are in the books right now in order to make sure that that extraction and that recycling happens in a way that protects communities first.

If we want to speed up permitting... you actually need to fund the agency.

It would be extremely destructive, not only because of the--I mean, one is the climate emissions that they would--that they bring about.

These laws were established by this Congress in bipartisan fashion to protect the air that we breathe.

While we are doing more recycling of these minerals... we are doing it in a way that it is safe.

What is the cost of a human life? What is the cost that that poison is going to inflict on a human being?

A substance is either safe or not. It is either poisoning or it is not.

We can have a win-win for the environment, for our public health, and for places like the Imperial Valley.

I always tell people that my proudest day was the day I became a United States citizen.

We know that being anti-immigrant is really being anti-American.

We need to make sure that the planning is done right and that it is reoccurring.

In the Imperial Valley, the Salton Sea has a massive supply of lithium.

Air knows no borders.

They give us a false choice between having healthy communities, a healthy environment, and energy security.

I am grateful to the Biden-Harris administration today for actually trying to do as best they can to address some of the abuses that are happening.

I think one of our weaknesses relative to China is the capacity and the scale.

It is really becoming, in my opinion--it is not just a tactical or operational problem; it is a safety problem.

We have to be able to do the same thing, not only protect us against those cyber attacks but also be able to develop the offensive cyber capabilities as well.

I think we are a little bit behind the power curve on some of these investments.

By listening to Indigenous communities on Federal land management decisions, we can protect the livelihood and well-being of Indigenous communities.

The Federal Government has a unique relationship with the tribal governments. Our Constitution recognizes tribes as sovereign nations.

I think that action substantially mitigated the impact on the labor that we would have had, but for not----