We have sent a letter to the Biden administration, along with the Oversight chair of Energy and Commerce, Ms. DeGette.
Betty McCollum
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Betty Louise McCollum is a U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 4th congressional district, serving since January 3, 2001. A member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, she has focused her legislative efforts on education, healthcare, and environmental issues. Throughout her tenure, McCollum has been an advocate for policies that support public education funding, access to affordable healthcare, and initiatives aimed at combating climate change. She has also been involved in various committees and has played a role in shaping national policy on these critical issues.
I included language last year in the subcommittee providing $2 million to the EPA to put the agency in the driver's seat in this initiative.
COVID-19 has increased food insecurity across the country. Indian Country has been no exception.
We don't place a value on water. But we hear about all the value in minerals. And life does not exist without water.
This pandemic has exposed many long outlying challenges and inequities that our rural communities face.
The skin is the largest organ in our body, and everything that we put on our skin is absorbed into our system.
sulfide copper ore mining could cause, quote, serious and irreparable harm to this unique, iconic, irreplaceable wilderness area, end of quote.
The decisions that we make to incentivize or disincentivize different kinds of energy use... can have the effect of choosing winners or losers with climate change.
If we don't get our climate under control pretty quick with the heat levels rising, we will see agriculture facing some real dire consequences.
But, Mr. Chair, with your leadership I would like to spotlight this and figure out how we can work together to make sure that products that we put on our largest organ, our skin, is safe for consumption, especially for the young women who…





