Deb Haaland

The mission of the Department is to manage our public lands, to protect our cultural resources and cultural heritage for every American.

Budget cuts never help us.

Reliable water is crucial to tribal communities, and this permanent funding for settlements will help us work with tribes and Congress to meet our trust responsibilities to ensure that tribal communities receive the water resources they…

Recreational visits to the refuge system also generate over $3 billion for local communities.

Our over 500 wildlife refuges, as you know, play an important role in conservation.

The Department of the Interior is personally responsible for getting out the door and into communities tens of billions of dollars.

Your management of our national parks, our treasures, has been exemplary.

I deeply appreciate that.

I can say that the BLM held three in-person meetings on the proposed rule.

I am saying that we have not ignored any voices in Alaska, Congressman.

I am concerned about everything about our country. I love this country. I am concerned about everything.

We are proud that the President and Dr. Biden are very supportive of our language revitalization efforts, and we will continue to make that a priority.

I want to make sure that the funding makes it into the next budget for that, as well as to make sure that we have a settlement team for the middle Rio Grande pueblos.

We absolutely want to always work together with tribes and local communities.

I work every day to make things better for everybody, Congressman.

I care about every single student.

I believe that every single Native child at any of our BIE schools deserves a quality, culturally relative education.

Enactment of our request for $2.8 billion in permanent funding for the Indian Water Rights Settlement Completion Fund will enable us to make tremendous progress on completing our commitments to complete our ongoing water rights settlements.

The Colorado River Basin, of course, we know that it is crucial to 30 Tribal Nations there.

I think its fair to say that, even to this day, no one knows my homelands better than its original stewards and their descendants;

As I have said many, many times, our public lands belong to all Americans. I am proud of the work we have been able to do to lift up our public lands so that the outdoor recreation industry can grow.

We want to get great folks working on our public lands, and we can only do that if they have a place to live.

I really believe that is the key, and we will follow that and move forward.

Yes, I am very proud of the fact that we have met this goal ahead of schedule.

I see this bill as working in conjunction with DOI's recently finalized renewable energy rule and the ongoing Western solar PEIS process.