Moving forward, Tribes should be exempt from GPRA reporting requirements, so more resources can go directly to services instead of being redirected to data collection, data entry, and data reporting.

Democrats believe in putting people over politics. Last Congress, Democrats tackled climate change and brought down energy costs for the American people. Those investments in the Inflation Reduction Act have already spurred investments in…

the ski areas are not just places of outdoor recreation in the winter, but also in the summer

Americans recognize the value of unions.

Unions shrink both racial and gender wage gaps, while raising wages for all workers.

we want to encourage local hiring to H.R. 1, so that the Forest Service, BLM, and the Park Service are looking to our local community for their hiring.

It would be a 1.4 trillion dollars economic benefit if we did that.

I look forward to seeing these bills move forward so that we can continue to grow our outdoor recreation.

We give workers more power, we pay workers what they deserve.

we cannot move forward if we don't do that, and that we preserve that.

The number of minors employed in violation of child labor laws has increased 37 percent in the last year.

50 years ago today, New Mexico was the first State to adopt a law that recognizes language and culture are inseparable, that students learn better if they take the language from their kitchen into their classroom. Fifty years ago, my…

Thank you, Chairwoman Hageman, and thank you to the witnesses for your testimony.

the intent is to ensure that the land remains subject to tribal jurisdiction, not to state jurisdiction, no state taxation.

We also know that it needs to be efficient, it needs to be timely.

We don't want to let foreign companies end up sort of exploiting our resources in a way that causes long-term damage.

This fails tribes, the 1872 law does.

The issue of the early childhood education by a vote of 70 to 30, New Mexico has not targeted to put more resources into our earliest--you know, the babies right? That is where we need to invest, because we know that has such an amazing…

I thank Representative Issa for that great summary of the importance of this land to the Pala Band, and the fact that we will actually probably see some economic benefit because they know how to be good stewards of the land. They know what…

I absolutely denounce the brutal and Communist regimes of Castro, Maduro, Stalin, and other dictators in the whereas clauses of this resolution. But, sadly, instead of spending our precious moments in the people's House expanding…

This bill does acknowledge the long and painful history of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians in this country. I support S. 789 because it moves us one step closer to recognizing and remembering that painful history but…

I thank Chair Grijalva for keeping the vision alive of educating our future leaders that will bring to us the solutions and resolutions of conflict issues around Native American self-determination and so much more. We feel the Udall…

I thank Chairman Grijalva and Ranking Member Obernolte, as well as Majority Leader Hoyer and others, for working to bring this and several other commonsense bills serving Indian Country to the floor today. Though I think most folks are…

I thank Representative Garcia. We know that Americans want DACA to be codified. They want our Dreamers to live here. Indeed, in the United States we know that a bipartisan poll conducted in October 2022 found overwhelming support…

I thank the gentleman for sharing the economic impacts of DACA recipients because we need to highlight that; that any opposition to the American Dream and Promise Act is not based on the benefits it brings to our country because the…