Charles Q. Brown: “Let everybody know where you stand, because you made a lot of commitments around the room.”

But be clear, we do want it to decrease access to loans at interest rates so high they ruin people's lives.

Thank you for the opportunity to serve my country in a new way, as I testify before you in support of protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from the destruction of oil and gas and drilling.

We must accelerate change or lose.

I urge Congress to pass H.R. 1146, the Arctic Cultural and Coastal Plain Protection Act, recently introduced by Chairman Jared Huffman.