it is really hard, as someone that lives in frontline communities, that, you know, for many of my residents, we really don't feel seen or heard when much of these discussions are held.

For me, this is not inflation, it is extortion.

Most of the jobs, especially in my community, from corporate polluters, they are temporary, and they will be of little use if another oil spill is allowed to destroy the source of our water and source of our life.

I think it is safe to say, at a minimum, we need to implement real tribal co-management.

If our planet warms 2 degrees Celsius, the damage will be irreparable.

It is disgusting that there is even a debate about whether dirty oil should flow through the waters that give us life in the Great Lakes region.

I totally hear you. But I think much of what is happening... is because of some of these broken systems and not thinking forward.

I am humbled by what we have learned from our Native Americans and traditional ecology-centered knowledge.

I am proud to speak today in support of the Honoring Our PACT Act. Our soldiers put their lives at risk every day and became severely ill as a result of burn pit exposure. We owe it to them to care for them in their time of need. I am…

A lot of policies, as a Black American, as a Muslim American, tells me that I do not belong.

Unfortunately, when the critical allocations were delayed, it is our small town residents who suffer the most.

I also think there should have been a limit to how many extensions states could request to provide small cities with their rightful allocations.