Political Quotes

“New Jersey is so lucky to have Representative Watson Coleman because she knows what is needed on the ground. Yes, indeed, it is together, and that is what I like about our Caucus and what we are doing. We are doing it together. We are not about division. We are about unity. That is what we represent, right? Because we know that community working together, living together, and growing together is how we succeed in life. I want to raise another part of where Build Back Better is very important. I am chair of the Indigenous Peoples Subcommittee. I am so lucky to have the Jicarilla Apache Nation, the Navajo Nation, and 16 different Puebloan Tribes in my district. They tell me about their needs. I have walked in their villages. I have sat at their feast days. I know the pandemic hit them hardest of all. We saw the death and despair in our Tribal communities. So what we did in Congress, what we did in the Natural Resources Committee, was to make sure that their voices were heard. We provided $14 billion in the American Rescue Plan and another $12 billion for their communities. We have been hearing lately about the incredible, sad stories that come from the fact that there was a time in America's history when we took children away from their Tribes, away from their culture, and we put them in boarding schools, and many died. We were trying to erase the savage Indian, and those were the words that were used. It didn't work. The Tribes are alive and with us.…”