What do we need in Indian Country to make sure that we provide economic opportunity, that we grow the middle class in Indian Country, which is needed more than perhaps elsewhere because we have been underserved, under-sourced for too long.

Thank you very much for coming and sharing the experience that you have had with homeownership and things that can be done to make it better, to make it faster, we should not be slowing those down.

Finally, with the Inflation Reduction Act and with the others that Congress passed, the President signed into law, are finally giving you the tools, which is people power, to get this done.

The same way your work and the work of NEPA doesn't happen without the investments we have made to make sure that there are the professionals on the ground who can do these reviews more quickly.

I am from New Mexico, representing New Mexico, but also concerned with Latinos and communities who have been harmed by environmental injustice.

This is about looking for the solution, looking for the answer, and being optimistic about we can solve this if we pay attention to it.

I too rise in opposition to the rule and the underlying bills. As our ranking member pointed out, these bills do nothing to solve the problems that Americans are asking us to face. For example, these bills will hurt the middle class. Let's…

we need to do better by the downwinders who were part of our national security, but were victims of the need for the progress

I appreciate the opportunity to appear today to provide testimony on the Inflation Reduction Act's historic investments in American households and jobs aimed at accelerating the U.S. transition to a clean energy economy.

Last month, there were two mass shootings in my district, one in Farmington and another in Red River. On Friday, I met with police officers, victims, and neighbors who were terrified and wounded. An 18-year-old used an assault rifle and…

The more assistance you can provide, sort of from the executive on, that would really be helpful, so that we can have more of the rural areas.

I represent rural communities, you have been out to my district, and there is a huge need for better health care and better access to resources.

I truly appreciated, as we opened our hearing today, your summary of how both congressional Democrats and President Biden's administration have worked to actually bring down the cost of prescription drugs, have worked to make sure that…

Part of the problem that we still need to look at is rural hospitals. Like too many hospitals in rural America are closing their OB/GYN or cutting their hours.

There were 300 salmon available for an entire tribe visualizes in many ways kind of the tears and the pain of the injustices that I think we all acknowledge that have occurred.

In some sense, the Department of Labor is there to serve as backstop, because individual workers who might be stiffed for their overtime, who might be placed in an independent contractor position, they need somebody to be on their side.

Thank you so much, Madam Chair, and thank you for the testimony this morning.

We really want to take what happened in these horrible 2 years of suffering through this pandemic, and not just forget about them, but learn from them.

I think it is important because it represents not only the Department of the Interior's act to solidify that connection...

UIOs were essentially created by Congress to ensure that the trust obligation was met in urban settings.

What we are talking about here is the United States Department of Labor.

Yes or no, do you believe in separation of powers and that the Department of Labor does not pass laws and instead only implements rules that are consistent with the laws Congress passed?

We are so proud of it, because in New Mexico, we have some of the lowest unemployment in history.

I am also very pleased that, in the recent bipartisan budget default agreements that were made, that we did save $1.3 billion that needed to go to the Indian Health Service.

But legislation that addresses lands, like the Wounded Knee legislation, for example, I think it is important...