Deb Haaland

We would like to ask for additional funding to help us with that.

We want them to know who they are. We have lost enough of our children that way.

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

It is time for America to act on climate change, and our public lands are one of the best resources for us to do so.

I invite the current Congress to have the fortitude your predecessors have lacked.

We will uphold our public lands as a point of pride that all Americans can share and co-own.

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

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 begin that leadership today as we confront the most pressing issue facing our Nation--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.

Discontinue (and certainly do not expand) the extraction of fossil fuels from Federal lands for use in energy generation.

These special places will serve as refuge for our highest values, and as places of growth toward our Nation's future.

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

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.

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.

Unfortunately, the Trump administration has failed to provide this leadership.

We will hold up our public lands as a point of pride that all Americans share in and co-own.

Today is an exciting day. It will be the first of a new era for this Committee and for this Congress, an era of inclusion, where the diverse voices of the American people are clearly heard in these halls.

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.

I think we really need to be proactive and address those things proactively rather than reactively.

I believe it is essential that we focus on environmental justice as we make this transition to reduce our carbon footprint.

I am committed to protecting our sacred lands, addressing climate change, and moving renewable energy forward.

The question is: will legislation aid our communities' future survival or hinder it. I hope for all our sakes it will be the former.

I look forward to working with you and my colleagues to protect our public lands and to meet our obligations to our indigenous communities.

Simply put, we must have legislation that clearly prioritizes investments in scalable projects like those mentioned today that reduce emissions at the source and address the historical harm and discrimination communities like mine have…