This is the only mining in Minnesota that I have come out forcefully against, in part, because of its location in the watershed.
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.
But we have to put them out publicly to send a signal to the White House of our displeasure.
the President's decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement is very disappointing to me, extraordinarily disappointing.
The most recent and most reckless action, in my opinion, was the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, which has made the United States a environmental rogue Nation.
This budget is the latest expression of the Administration's willful denial of climate science.
Unfortunately, President Trump's fiscal year 2018 budget request is a cruel and, I believe, a reckless plan...
the budget cut to the categorical grants to States and tribes of 40 percent is just going to be a nonstarter here.
If there are Federal employees not doing their job, they need to be held accountable to it.
I want to begin by saying how profoundly disappointed I am that President Trump is withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement.
Representative McCollum, thank you for allowing us to be here in front of you today.
I think we have heard a very solid, united front from across Indian Country.
I would just like to thank the chairman for having this important listening hearing with our Native American, Alaska Native brothers and sisters, and I look forward to the testimony.





