Our role is to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars.

Should we be spending millions, billions of dollars to pursue R&D to subsidize private companies who are going to go then and capture those resources and use them for their own profits?

if we are going to talk about Members of Congress being compromised by elite interests from other countries, how about we talk about members of this Committee who take campaign donations from multi-national mining companies that the Chinese Communist Party has an interest in, including in Arizona?

Space is a commons.

if we don't take immediate action, literally right now, in the next several years, we are not going to have a planet to live on.

I am a huge proponent of Federal R&D to help support economic growth and opportunity.

There are legitimate questions here, public policy questions about where we spend our money in the near term and the long term.

Just 2 weeks ago, we had a hearing on a bipartisan veterans bill that myself and Representative Ciscomani have introduced to actually increase access for our veterans and disabled individuals in our community to our national parks.

For us in New Mexico, our public lands are Indigenous lands. They are the historic lands of our communities.

As we all know, our national parks play an essential role in preserving our most treasured landscapes, our cultural landscapes, our historic, natural, and cultural resources.

The economic impact shouldn't really be involved here, this is more important.