Melanie Stansbury

I find it extraordinarily distasteful and disrespectful when we call hearings about tribal issues and Members of Congress use the space to talk about policy and political issues that are not about the issue at hand.

The wildfire season is shifting dramatically earlier.

We are seeing a huge increase in both the number of fires and intensity of fires.

I just want to say thank you.

I represent New Mexico's 1st Congressional District, which includes the Albuquerque area and 10 counties in central New Mexico.

I rise on this date of awareness to stand on the floor of the House of Representatives, the people's House, to show support for each and every LGBTQ person in the great State of New Mexico and across the country. It is shocking and…

I would like to insert my side eye, and I reserve the balance of my time.

If there is any reason to advocate for an increase in BIE funding, there it is. We need to pay our teachers an equitable salary.

If we don't fund those, we are not living up to the commitments we have made.

In spite of over a million dollars that this corporation has spent lobbying the U.S. Government, the people have spoken and submitted over 675,000 public comments to protect the Boundary Waters. That is why I support the protection of this…

Every single day we are so deeply proud to have you as our Secretary, and as a New Mexican, and as a leader.

This body just two summers ago passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which is not only the largest investment in climate change in our nation's history.

Under your leadership, Madam Secretary, there have been historic leases for clean energy, protection of vast swaths of our public lands.

We need to tighten up the ethics rules with respect to interaction with previous employers.

How do we stop this? We have seen the same kinds of abuses during the Trump administration.

I think it is bizarre to talk about the influence of dark money on policy without identifying that we actually have two great examples here in front of us today.

I find it ironic that our two Majority witnesses are both here and affiliated with these conservative organizations.

It gives donations to conservative candidates like Donald Trump.

One of the ways in which we tried to restore trust in American institutions was by creating independent investigative bodies that would look at ethics violations

Well, these hearings are always a very interesting fever dream, but I am hoping that we can bring it to a conclusion soon.

Actually, there were multiple criminal referrals during the Trump administration.

There is a fundamental difference between having differences of opinion over policy and what direction an agency should take, and legally binding ethics laws about what those in power do with those positions of power, what access they…

This is about protecting tribal sacred sites that are critical to our communities.

Chaco Canyon is a sacred site. There are dozens of tribes in New Mexico who have been working for decades to have the greater Chaco Canyon area protected because it is part of their ancestral history.

I think it is important to be clear on what perspectives people are representing when they are in front of us in the public discourse.