Deb Haaland

The Federal government must stop funding States to educate our youth according to State standards.

Great nations like great men should keep their word.

This cannot be the only place in America where Americans citizens who have, under treaty rights, been promised their healthcare do not have it available to them.

We are asking for a $95 million line item increase for the urban Indian health programs.

Our people are dying. People are dying in a manner that we can't control.

If one group of people on this planet knows how to stretch the dollar, it is us.

The funding has never been adequate and everybody knows that. It will never be adequate.

I wanted to let you know that the Urban Indian Health Institute is funded through IHS for just under $400,000 a year.

We have actually built out an MSW practicum program because we are treating these dips with parity.

We are not battling an opiate epidemic. We are battling a trauma epidemic.

What does this mean? When we talk about evidence-based practices and the practices that we are supposed to implement within our tribal clinics, the evidence that is gathered for these practices don't actually represent us.

I am pleased to be leading a bipartisan bill in the House to authorize advanced appropriations for the Indian Health Services.

The shutdown illustrated the importance of providing funds to Indian Country in some form of advance.

Congress must not take our treaty and trust responsibilities lightly.

We are asking for a $24 million line item ask to support the tribal task.

New Mexico has some of the worst poverty rates in the Nation. In fact, half of our population is Medicaid eligible.

I urge the committee to provide robust funding for victim advocates in state courts, especially for indigenous people experiencing this more than normal, higher rate of sexual assault and domestic violence in urban locations.

It is imperative that we hear the best science, and that we understand the impacts so that we can begin to act on climate change.

We should not be allowing decisions to be made that are not going to be effective for what we want our government to be doing for us.

Thank you so much. I wanted to go until noon.

I walk to work every day. Just letting you know that. And I haven't used a plastic disposable water bottle since I have been here on Capitol Hill.

In your testimony, you mentioned that we need to provide our agencies with clear, informed mandates to begin preparing for climate change.

Now is the time to act on climate change. We can't wait any longer.

We oppose an attack on Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that would open one of our planet's truly wild places for drilling.

We oppose the Administration's proposed offshore leasing and drilling. It would make more than 90 percent of U.S. waters available to oil and gas companies.