Martin Heinrich

We're seeing more and more demand, less and less supply.

Your point is so important we are going to stay at this until we turn OMB around on the question of how important prevention is and carrying out the FLAME Act.

I want to thank the chairman and ranking member for the timeliness of this.

I just hate to see us taking money out of hazardous fuel reduction, out of ecosystem restoration, out of... proactive fire management in order to fund the very real need that we need to respond to, an urgent fire situation now.

I want to suggest to the Chairman that we ask the OMB to come and have this kind of a conversation.

I am going to try and set a little bit of a--well, I am just going to yield back the rest of my time

STEM education is incredibly important to our economy, and that the next generation of STEM leaders will play a critical role in driving us forward.

You can avoid out-sourcing by having talented people come and stay here, and STEM education is one way to target that.

I am writing in support of S.312, Carson National Forest Boundary Adjustment Act.

That designation, I think, was an incredible recognition of the community's work in Northern New Mexico.

I am writing in support of S. 312, the Carson National Forest Boundary Adjustment Act.

One of the things that I think attracted people like Congressman Bishop and Congresswoman Lomas and others to the FLTFA model... is the idea of quality to over quantity.

FLTFA is an excellent model for public land management that supports conservation goals as well as economic development.

I want to thank you for including a number of bills that have been in the works involving New Mexico for a number of years now.

Great, thank you very much.

Were the closures that Senator Manchin asked about, were they closures, complete closures to the public including pedestrians and including fishing or is it only a closure to off road vehicle use or motorized access?

I think that's going to be very important just to make sure that those kind of cultural traditions are preserved as part of the fabric of this preserve moving forward.

I think this is one of the things that makes this attractive is the per unit cost of doing a national preserve as a one off has proven to be incredibly expensive.

I want to recognize the work that Senator Bingaman did on the 2 bills relating to New Mexico today.

We need to do something to open the tap here.

The slow pace of Federal funding means that these towns may run out of water long before the pipeline is ever completed.

Senator Baucus' rural water project bill has a particular project in New Mexico that's been in the works for a long time.

Clovis is projected to run dry in 20 years.

Portales is expected to run out of ground water in about 10 years.

The communities in that area are in dire need.