Martin Heinrich

I think we've overlooked this for too long and we have to get into integrating engineering with nature upfront at the beginning.

I know Ms. Trujillo will be an invaluable partner to this Committee in charting a sustainable water future for the West.

As we talk about replacing infrastructure, there are communities who have never had that infrastructure in the first place.

If confirmed, I just want to ask, will you work to make sure that the Navajo-Gallup pipeline stays on track moving forward?

I am very pleased to introduce a native New Mexican to the Committee.

There is much more that needs to be done to sustain those capabilities and reach the hardest-to-serve areas and populations.

I will be especially focused on ensuring a robust COVID-19 vaccination program through the entire VA system.

Ensuring that CBO projections are considering demographic makeup is incredibly important to States like mine.

Yesterday, several of my colleagues sent you a letter asking the GAO to make recommendations additionally on how Federal Land Management agencies can improve the Federal Firefighting Workforce.

Veterans deserve far more than just words of gratitude for their service when they come home.

Most are committed to improving the telehealth services that so many rural veterans in New Mexico and all across the country rely upon.

This should be a focus.

I have literally seen people on the cable shows questioning whether broadband is infrastructure.

I think it is a particularly concerning state of affairs at the moment.

This is the infrastructure of our time.

It is something that we need to make accessible to first Americans, and really all Americans.

Not all technologies decline in cost over time.

Ensuring that CBO projections are considering demographic makeup is incredibly important to States like mine.

I believe these communities deserve more attention than that, and I'll be submitting a request to GAO to provide us with a report, and with recommendations on how to address the infrastructure shortfalls.

I was really glad to see the American Jobs Plan's proposals to build out the national network of charging infrastructure by 2030.

We've been deferring maintenance in this country for decades now. We are under-investing in infrastructure.

Our current commitment to infrastructure has more in common with Belarus at 2.1 percent than it does with China at 5.6 percent.

Fixing methane leaks and capturing wasted emissions from oil and gas infrastructure is a big potential win-win for the economy, for the climate.

I mean, this is the infrastructure of our time, and I very much appreciate what you said about reaching out to Tribal communities.

As we witnessed on January 6, the most serious threat to our democracy sometimes comes from within.