"We are hearing the need to get more resources to support tribal courts, to beef up DOJ, and BIA, and law enforcement."
"the biggest problem I see with Castro-Huerta is that the Court erroneously concluded that state governments somehow have a greater interest in protecting Native victims than their own Tribal Nations."
"What can Congress do to hear from Tribal Nations in order to find a reasonable consensus in Indian Country to respond to Castro-Huerta?"
"Part of being able to take effective action on climate change requires that we know that the methods and the tactics that we're using to tackle emissions and sinks is actually effective."
"We know that we have to take action as quickly as possible."
"Obviously, this is the most important and pressing question of the day is how do we meet our goal of reducing our carbon emissions by 2035, 2040 so that we don't cross this catastrophic tipping point?"
"Climate change is already here, it's already on the ground, it's already impacting our communities."
"In New Mexico we have a saying that 'agua es vida,' water is life because it is the vital resource in the arid Southwest upon which everything else depends."
"Climate action cannot wait, and we must take decisive action now to address both the causes of climate change and its impacts."
"Considering these and other attacks on our core democratic institutions, it is more important than ever that we act at the Federal level to protect voting rights."
"That was so important for ensuring that our Tribal nations could control access to the ballot box."