I strongly oppose this amendment because it would allow Secretary Bernhardt to kill this bill, preventing protections for the important cultural sites at Chaco Canyon. In response to this amendment, I would point you to the text of H.R…

This amendment is just another attempt to distract from the importance of this proposal, which is listening to Tribal voices by protecting the sacred sites of Chaco Canyon from oil and gas extraction. The bill would not impact New Mexico…

I hope that we can all agree that this is unacceptable.

I think that our focus on working as quickly as possible to restore sustainability and remove this debt burden is probably the single thing that we can agree on.

Anti-government rhetoric more frequently being adopted by officials in positions of power is being used as a weapon against our public lands.

No one should face fear and harassment in their place of work or in their communities.

What Senator [Harry] Reid may call domestic terrorists, I call Patriots.

the University of Puerto Rico system is the crown jewel of Puerto Rico.

But there are still many questions about this process that we need to dig into further to understand what was behind these monument reductions.

I would like to put those two on the screen.

I will take that commitment as a true desire to right these wrongs.

Why did the Department redact these documents when sending them to Congress, when clearly there was no valid reason to redact them under FOIA?