Ben Ray Luján

Can I get a commitment today, Mr. Chairman and Mr. Knapp, that we can work together to raise this issue...

Congress must embrace them as fellow citizens and stop jeopardizing their access to healthcare.

The lack of adequate funding for Medicaid programs in the territories is not only unacceptable, it is inhumane.

I think that we should listen to the experts from the AMA when they say that they have a concern that the AMA's Code of Medical Ethics are going to be violated.

I think there is a bit of a conflict here because what I just heard was that the rule does not restrict any physicians from having these conversations.

Why is this administration comfortable lowering the standards of provider care and dictating what can and cannot be said in a doctor's office?

There is something that's terribly off there.

We need to do something about this, and I hope the Act that we have does.

This legislation would only withdraw over 900,000 acres, but would only withdraw 316,076 acres of oil, natural gas, coal, and other minerals.

Chairman Grijalva has, and continues to be, a champion for our community and the Grand Canyon.

I believe the Chaco Protection Act will help our ancient land as well as our living communities.

These are protections of sacred lands that would benefit the health and safety of many and the BLM has said it would not impact the rights of allottees.

It is my understanding that Tribal and allottees would not be affected by this withdrawal. However, there will be challenges given the intermixing of public, tribal and private land and of course the geography of the lands.

The Pueblo of Santa Ana thanks the Committee for the opportunity to testify on the Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2019, H.R. 2181.

The BLM has testified that this legislation would not affect tribal interests or allottees, while the bill itself includes language that recognizes the rights of Navajo allottees such as yourself, Ms. Hesuse, to continue to develop their…

Let me be clear: uranium mining is important to the United States and world economy, but uranium contamination is not.

For the protection of the cultural and historic knowledge, public health and our environment, the Navajo Nation supports the Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act sponsored by Congressman Ben Ray Lujan as well as Senator Udall's…

I believe it is our responsibility to ensure that these vital programs have the funding necessary to continue but also to expand.

I think that we must take action on resiliency and that the United States must take immediate action to reduce emissions.

We should be reminded that we made a commitment, when we went to the American people... that we would pass legislation to lower the cost of prescription drug prices for the American people, and we had better deliver on it.

it doesn't make any sense when it is less expensive to fix the problem to clean up their own mess.

The Department of Defense refuses to clean up this groundwater, even though they fully acknowledge that their actions created this pollution.

Climate change is real, humans are having a contribution to it.

We have to very carefully think about some of these multilateral agreements like Paris.

The European Union nations are not hitting their targets; they are not on a trajectory to hit their targets.