Melanie Stansbury

It is not just the mining industry that gets to have free rein on these lands from other uses. One of the things that is important to understand about the language in this bill is that any actor with a few dollars to spare could lock up…

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

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

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.

I stand today to also respectfully oppose H.R. 3397, or what my colleagues across the aisle are calling the WEST Act. I, too, have great respect for the chair and for the sponsor of this bill, and especially for the farmers, ranchers, and…

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…

the influence of dark money at the Department of the Interior has never been more apparent than it was under 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…

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

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

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

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.

It gives donations to conservative candidates like Donald Trump.

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

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

President Trump, who has literally spent most of his life involved in pay-to-play scandals.

I hope we can get back to working for the American people.

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

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.

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.

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

This week we are closing out Black Maternal Health Week, focused on bringing attention, awareness, and, most importantly, action to improving maternal health for Black mothers. Across the United States, Black mothers are three times more…

If we do not support our allies in Europe and in the Pacific, we could be on the verge of a major war in which American service members would be deployed.

The Chinese are watching what we do right now, and our first and best defense is to support our allies.

America needs to wake up, because if we do not take action in this chamber, the threats to global and domestic security will have significant and devastating impacts for the United States.