Deb Haaland

Thank you for your question, Representative Haaland.

I believe very strongly that going to the people in our respective tribes who know how to help us...

I have experienced it. I have helped my daughter through it.

I absolutely believe that generational trauma is something that plagues our people.

Thank you. Yes, we absolutely need to have mandatory action.

It is not so-called, it is real, and all of us are going to have a chance to deal with it in the near future.

Along with my colleague, Representative McEachin, as the Chairman indicated at the beginning of the meeting, we want to introduce the Environmental Justice For All Act.

And to say that the straits that those companies find themselves in is all a consequence...is disingenuous at best.

There are some important points. Renewable alternative energy is, like it or not, an inevitability for this Nation.

I think it is a success story that other people across the Nation could learn from, and her leadership and the coalition that she was a part of took this environmental justice issue of great significance to that community and, with…

The health impacts of being on the fence lines of these facilities are extremely detrimental.

I am proud of the work done by this Committee to address environmental justice, led by our Full Committee Chair, Raul Grijalva, and our Subcommittee colleague, Representative McEachin.

I am really proud of the fact that every single one of our witnesses talking about environmental justice is a woman.

It is clear the racial disparities within our military justice system require more than just a disparity board.

This is a significant problem that we absolutely need to fix.

I have to believe that this is also a contributing factor to why we don't see service members of color achieve higher ranks.

It was disheartening to learn that... the services have responded with little more than unconscious bias training.

We must ensure the systems we utilize to administer discipline are fair and just for everyone.

Until we have a national strategy to deal with the pandemic, until we have testing, until we have PPE, I can assure you that I am not going to put the lives of my staff at risk

We cannot condemn the people of Puerto Rico in the wake of a debt crisis, devastating storms, earthquakes to an inadequate response to the coronavirus pandemic because they are ruled by an oversight board.

It runs directly counter to the very reasons they decided to serve their country, and to their oath to support and defend the Constitution.

It seems that some law enforcement officers at Lafayette were not pleased about what they were asked to do on that day.

And I would imagine having that recording would answer many of the questions that we and the public have at this moment.

Can you provide any notes or logs of those transmissions to the Committee please?

OK. So, that was an error you say?