Deb Haaland

We are weaker as a Nation if we cannot protect the women who serve our country.

You'd ``stop oil and gas leasing on public lands.''

I look forward to continuing to work with Chair Grijalva, as we advance meaningful, nature-based policies to fight the climate crisis.

The Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act will keep oceans healthy in the face of warming temperatures.

We know the ocean is a crucial ally in the climate fight.

One of the most critical aspects of the Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act is that it incorporates ocean-based energy production as part of the climate solution.

Protecting and restoring ocean and wetland ecosystems doesn't just increase their capacity to sequester carbon; it also makes coastal communities more resilient to the impacts of climate change.

The Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act recognizes the potential of 'blue carbon' to mitigate climate change.

This legislation will protect at least 30% of our ocean by 2030.

As Chair of the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, I'm proud that it incorporates many of the recommendations from our Climate Crisis Action Plan.

It is the first recognition, both through the Tribal resilience program funding provisions in the bill, as well as the relocation funding provisions in the bill, where our harm and our suffering is being acknowledged.

We absolutely need good fishery management, and we absolutely need good conservation

I support portions of the bill that establish processes for relocation of communities and humbly call for the Federal Government to do more.

We echo the calls of our Pacific Island brother and sisters 'We are not drowning. We are fighting.'

The way I look at it, we are in a reciprocal relationship with nature. You reap what you sow: greedy polluters have harmed our planet for decades, and now we are all facing the consequences.

I urge my colleagues to support the legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Takano). The question is on the motion offered by the gentlewoman from New Mexico (Ms. Haaland) that the House suspend…

The report doesn't help my constituents. It doesn't help the hardworking farmers in my State worried about their livestock being contaminated.

PFAS presents a clear and present danger to our children, to our farmers, and environment as a whole.

New Mexicans deserve clean water to raise their families, grow their businesses, and support agriculture, but harmful chemicals have taken a toll in our communities.

This issue affects communities across our country including at Kirtland Air Force Base which is in my district.

And based off the Interior's decision to re-open in-person learning as soon as possible and oversight of basic COVID issues impacting Native students, do you think there is a general disconnect between the Interior and what is actually…

If tribes do not have access to wireless networks over a majority of their lands, how does the Interior's technology platform contradict itself?

I hope today's hearing will lead us down a relentless path toward swift military justice reforms.

I am deeply saddened and disturbed to hear about the loss of Specialist Vanessa Guillen.

I can say that gas at this moment is much better than the system oil and efficiency petroleum gas.