I don't want any New Mexican to go without an opportunity to support their families.

I highly urge this Committee to consider the extent of your responsibility to me and to every single living person affected by oil and gas extraction development on the Navajo Nation and in New Mexico.

We should not have to suffer every time the price of oil goes down.

Instead, President Trump wants to expand drilling and logging across precious and fragile landscapes.

I know what it is like to be poor.

I urge the Committee members to push back against the Administration's mistaken legal and scientific rationale for undoing these common-sense regulations.

I intend to lead a New Mexico where we take our environmental destiny into our own hands.

Unfortunately, we are dealing with a president who has slashed funding for programs to protect intact ecosystems.

Thank you very much for speaking your truth.

We are working hard to make sure that that happens.

I am a member of Laguna Pueblo, and we had a bartering economy until the early 1950s, when the uranium mine, the Jackpile Mine opened in Laguna, and it was home to the largest open-pit mine in the world, and we are still feeling the…

Unfortunately, the Trump administration has decided to ignore the science and is working to weaken and repeal these rules.