Political Quotes

the United States Census is absolutely essential to my communities and an accurate count is very essential to my communities because we are tribal communities, we are rural communities, we are low-income communities, and the Census is essential for not only capturing, of course, who is there, what their backgrounds are, where they live, but it is absolutely essential for all of the Federal services that our communities depend on to survive, everything from housing programs to food programs, to roads, you name it, the United States Census is how we make sure that there is a fair assessment.

I hope that will extend to the new Subcommittee that a certain billionaire, social media owner is hoping to intersect with right here in this Committee in the coming years.

I represent New Mexico. And a lot of the rhetoric that we hear around here around immigration is every state is a border state.

Now I know the question on everyone’s mind is, ‘how can they do this? How is this legal?’ And the answer is, ‘it’s not. It’s not legal.'