Melanie Stansbury

I led the inclusion of additional funding in the House-passed appropriations bill for cultural studies.

I join you, the Navajo and the Pueblo leaders, in striving to find the important balance.

I really appreciated the meeting that we had here in my office last week.

I request that the committee authorize an additional $5 million for the Tribal Partnership Program.

We also ask that the committee consider including funding for our acequia resilience and Tribal acequia program.

I urge that the committee consider authorizing an additional $200 million to the Bureau of Reclamation.

As we consider the 2022 Water Resources Development Act, many of you know, our West and our communities across the Southwest are gripped by the worst drought that we have seen in 1,200 years.

It's just so urgent that expedite this research and development, and then expedite the cleanup of these communities.

Our dairies in particular, and the dairy industry, as one of our leading agricultural industries, has been just devastated. Thousands of gallons of milk have been dumped, and people's livelihoods have been destroyed by this contamination.

PFAS has also been detected in water bodies throughout our State, and we are just beginning to scratch the surface in understanding the full picture of this contamination, the fate and transport of the contaminants within our communities…

Given the impacts of PFAS in our communities, and communities across the country, and particularly in New Mexico, it's vital that we advance coordination and advanced science and research on the impacts, cleanup, and alternatives to PFAS…

New Mexico stands ready to manufacture, to assemble, and to test those semiconductors.

One of the things that we've been working on in this Committee... is to create a nonprofit foundation that will help to align the R&D that happens at our National Labs with the private sector.

New Mexico is particularly well poised to help lead the charge here, and help to ensure American leadership in microelectronics.

In my community, and across New Mexico, we are so privileged to have the ability to step into our backyards, and look up at the night sky...

We must invest in addressing global climate change because that is our charge. Our communities are counting on us, and that is why we must deliver this bill tonight. {time} 1845

I believe that they should work solely within and on nuclear energy for nondefense purposes.

The DOE contract in question today raises serious concerns.

This hearing is all about good government and ensuring appropriate oversight over Federal agencies, their procurement practices, and ensuring that the taxpayers' dollars are being spent appropriately.

El agua es la vida, and it is part and parcel of our cultures and ways of life, our economy, and the future of our state.

As I often say, New Mexico's top exports are green chile and our water experts, of which we have many here today.

It is so vital that we are able to accurately model and develop tools and technologies, and to really translate and deliver that information to our community so that it can inform their decisionmaking on the ground.

The National Weather Service plays such a pivotal role not just in weather forecasting, but increasingly in climate forecasting.

As we all know, our communities are already experiencing the impacts of climate change, as many have said today, and extreme weather events, and these events are becoming more frequent all across the country, including in my home State…

The people of New Mexico and my district stand united with the people of Puerto Rico in demanding energy justice and grid modernization.