Michelle Lujan Grisham

We call on EPA and the Corps to withdraw the proposal and engage in a meaningful dialogue with all stakeholders, including electric cooperatives and others that provide essential services to the rural community.

We thank you for holding your hearing March 17, 2015, to review the proposed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rulemaking.

Clean water is vital to the productivity and well-being of America's farms, ranches and rural communities.

Thank you, Chairman Thompson, and Ranking Member Lujan Grisham.

The Waters of the U.S., has to be addressed at some form and fashion.

I was struck by several of the panelists talking about the withdrawal of the rule, and I am wondering, as we look at methods, going forward, if we should also ask EPA to do a supplemental rule because they have significant comments that…

I really appreciate that because--and that is not to minimize that you identified significant issues with the current proposed rule, but that getting to a place where all of the stakeholders are clarifying responsibilities and…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Chairman Thompson, Ranking Member Lujan Grisham, and Members of the Subcommittee for the opportunity to provide testimony this morning.

A one-size-fits-all approach can often lead to unintended consequences.

I have an expectation that they fulfill that obligation to protect clean water.

Policymakers have an obligation to work together to ensure that communities have access to safe drinking water.

I understand more than ever the importance of protecting this scarce resource.

I am really excited... about having this first hearing in this Subcommittee.

The following comments were sent to our office by the Northern New Mexico Stockmen's Association (NNMSA) on March 13, 2015.

Only 26 percent of the CSB employees recently rated their senior leadership as satisfactory.

I am going to ask that you be much more specific, and I am going to ask that you do that in writing

I use that as an example. Including the cybersecurity, including privacy, including protection.

We want to make sure that we are also highlighting that tons of information has also gotten out that has been incredibly accurate.

In New Mexico, where we have some of the most challenging uninsured and access issues in the Country, the number of individuals uninsured has dropped by about 25 percent, and it is one of the largest drops of any State in the Country, and…

We need to give them more options for food purchasing, we need to encourage marketers of fresh vegetables and fruit to open farmers' markets in these communities.

I come from a state where we still have the hungriest children in the country, that is an untenable situation.

If I am choosing between feeding my child and having a roof over my child's head, or be homeless...

Are there strategies in place to deal with that reality, so that we don't create a situation where we are penalizing unnecessarily folks who, without these benefits, have no other options to feed their families?

We have a responsibility in this institution, as well as our private-sector partners, and other public sector partners, to do something to make sure that we eradicate those issues, poverty and hunger, in this country forever.