Melanie Stansbury

While I appreciate that part of the debate has been framed as a difference in perspective, it is actually a difference in the actual facts on the page of what the bill says. Let me read to you from the bill that is being proposed to be…

I will go back to the language of the text. As I read the text as it appears on the page as introduced, it is seeking to exempt Federal permitting requirements for the subsurface estate, so that means Federal resources. They are saying, if…

the statement that was made about immigrants who are undocumented taking American jobs under the legislation that we passed is a statement that Donald Trump made at a rally and is just untrue.

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

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.

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

The American people know they are being price gouged.

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

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

we already have tried, and Donald Trump has tried some of these policies, and they were devastating for the American economy.

Wildfires are devastating our communities across the country. In fact, just 3 months ago, one of the largest and most destructive fires in New Mexico's history tore through Lincoln and Otero Counties, over 24,000 acres were burned, 1,400…

I was absent for the vote on ordering the previous question for H. Res. 1370. I was also absent for several votes on amendments to H.R. 8997. Had I been present, I would have voted NAY on Roll Call No. 359, NO on Roll Call No. 363, NO on…

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

I thank Ranking Member Lee for her exceptional years of leadership on international affairs. She is a beacon of hope for our country and to so many around the world. Mr. Chair, I rise today to oppose H.R. 8771, which is the GOP's…

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

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.

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

We pause in prayer for the people of Ruidoso, Mescalero, Lincoln, and Otero Counties. Our hearts break for those who have lost their lives and the 29 who are still missing from the South Fork and Salt fires. These fires have displaced…

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.

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.

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

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.