I really want to thank you and the administration for putting forth a budget that has mandatory funding for the IHS.

Wildfires have been a reality in New Mexico for centuries, for millennia. But we know that climate change and drought are making wildfires worse and we must address that.

My vote in support of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law was a recognition of this huge need.

Thank you, Chair Grijalva, and thank you to the witnesses and this whole discussion that we are having about the topic in terms of the roles and the importance of tribes actually participating and managing their own lands, which are also…

Yesterday President Biden stood in this very room and addressed a Nation during the State of the Union that was looking to the kind of unity, strength, and commitment that we heard last night. We saw a President who is concerned as our…

I want to give a shoutout to New Mexico Highlands University, one of the HSIs in my district.

I absolutely agree with you, that strengthening the employees was a good thing.

when we invest in our workers, we can do something we haven't done in a long time--build a better America.

As we build a better America, we need to make sure that we are creating the opportunities so all of our students can realize the possibility of their dreams, right?

I am glad to hear there is progress, even though there is so much work that we need to do.

Thank you very much, Madam Chairperson Lofgren. And, once again, thank you for holding this important hearing.

It has been, you know, over a year since that harrowing attack on our Capitol by Trump supporters seeking to stop the constitutional counting of the electoral college votes.

The ways they can do that are--you know, The Markup did a great investigation right after January 6th showing the two different Facebooks that Republicans and Democrats were seeing.

I can tell you that this issue comes up a lot as I talk to my constituents.

I truly appreciated your comments about how protection of our personal data held by the government is linked to people's trust in our government.

I want to focus a bit on how data privacy or the lack thereof impacts our elections and our democracy.

I really appreciated your poignant written remarks about how democracy is simultaneously the only legitimate authority capable of helping the surveillance capitalism but also a prime target.

this bill is called the Environmental Justice, right? That we are focused on making sure that everybody has justice in the same sense of access to that clean air, access to economic opportunities that don't come at the expense of somebody…

disparate impact is also prohibited under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and that was part of the intent of the legislation.

We exploded an atomic bomb here, and the people who were exposed to that have not been able to get compensation.

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I urge my colleagues to support this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentlewoman from New Mexico (Ms. Leger Fernandez) that the House suspend the…