Melanie Stansbury

We know that these programs help lift American people out of poverty, and we know that they stimulate the economy.

The Inflation Reduction Act was also a historic investment in the future of this country. It is an investment in our economy...

President Biden had a vision of the future of this country. He had a vision for bringing back American jobs to this country...

We passed the American Rescue Plan, which not only helped millions of Americans get through one of the largest economic disturbances in American history...

The causes of inflation are very clearly tied to the economic disruptions that happened during the pandemic.

We are 41 days from the Presidential election because the Oversight Committee has been using this Committee as a slush fund for Donald Trump campaign.

I think it is worth noting that Trump's Chief of Staff, who served in the EPA, wrote Project 2025's EPA chapter.

Why is the GOP sitting here spending Committee resources trying to tell us that this is just some made-up agenda?

They are making this country a less just place by perpetrating and repeating hateful speech.

Hearings like this...are making this country a less just place by perpetrating and repeating hateful speech.

This hearing is making America less safe for our children and LGBTQ and people of color across this country.

The rhetoric that you are hearing here on the dais could be a hearing from 1850, because this is the same argument that people have been making about immigration.

Folks are coming from all over the world. And the journeys that they go on to arrive here are not unlike probably everyone in this room's.

It is disturbing to hear, especially in a Committee like this, to be used in this way.

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

This Committee was originally scheduled for earlier in the morning, but was rescheduled so that Donald Trump could meet with House Republicans off campus for a political rally.

Our taxpayer dollars are not to be used for political purposes or as a campaign stop for political activities.

These House Natural Resources Committee hearings are always an interesting fever dream.

I do not feel is an appropriate use of official resources.

I do want to just make a comment to address to the Committee. Today is primary day in New Mexico. So, happy Election Day.

Over the last several months we have been working with tribal leaders, tribal organizations, law enforcement, and others to really understand.

I think it is clear to anyone who is working on issues around public safety and behavioral health in our tribal communities that it has been truly devastating to see the ways in which the fentanyl crisis has touched down in our tribal…

Tribes are sovereign nations.

We need water to put out the fire.

I think it is disrespectful to the folks who serve our tribal governments.