Teresa Leger Fernandez

I think an amendment to the Small Tracts Act, so we will look forward to working with you on that...

In the past 7 months since antisemitic incidents have spiked across the country, this Committee has held five hearings...

Once again, I call on the Committee to hold a hearing on the legislation to actually address antisemitism, like the Combating Antisemitism Act.

Unfortunately, I do not think that hearing after hearing where we are simply addressing sad, and disturbing incidents, but not addressing legislation to combat them, is what our Nation needs at this time.

These are not isolated incidences, they follow a disturbing trend of the far right that embraces antisemitic conspiracies like the Great Replacement Theory.

I will point out that that bill has an equal number of democrat and republican cosponsors.

Unfortunately, antisemitism as we know, is a form of hate also rampant in our politics.

I urge support for my motion so that the Natural Resources Committee can consider this amendment, this time in good faith.

I hope my colleagues will join me in pushing back against China owning our resources and voting for this and making sure American companies are the ones owning our resources. I hope they will vote for the motion to recommit. {time} 1445

To discuss our proposal, I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Schrier).

I, too, like many more, take sacred the oath that we have taken to preserve the Constitution. I hope that as elections come up and as we think about how we make sure that we preserve our democracy, that those words continue to ring…

I thank the gentleman very much for his words. I think they are very inspiring as to the wonderful leadership that we have had with Chairman Cole, and also, we are going to miss Eric. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

I thank the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Roy) for the customary 30 minutes. I yield myself such time as I may consume. (Ms. LEGER FERNANDEZ asked and was given permission to revise and extend her remarks.)

I like the fact that the answers have actually told us that the people in the territories... are asking for this and you are responding to that.

I completely agree that it is important that those who have fought to preserve our country deserve to have full access to our public lands. It is not enough to say thank you for your service. We must always turn that gratitude into…

I urge my colleagues to support this legislation to put into good use this land for the benefit of our veterans, and I yield back the balance of my time.

As noted above, this bill is quite worthy of our support. While we have been talking about it with a smile in our hearts, we must recognize that it is incredibly important, and we must be thankful to those who have compiled this collection…

I am ready to close. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this bipartisan legislation so that we can continue to protect our fishing fleet, protect the waters, and, importantly, protect the tuna that provides such economic vitality…

I also have no further requests for time, and I am prepared to close. Mr. Speaker, as noted, this is a worthwhile bill for taking this land into trust. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this legislation, and I yield back the…

I really do commend the sponsor of the bill. As she noted, this bill is supported on a bipartisan basis by some of our most illustrious colleagues. I remember this bill when it was introduced last session as well, and the work that…

Another issue that I am concerned about, and I wrote a letter to the Secretary, I signed a letter to the Secretary of Education in February, about the problem that FAFSA was having with parents who have mixed immigration status.

This disaster of what happened with FAFSA is hurting the communities that I care deeply about.

H.R. 5015, Seedlings for Sustainable Habitat Restoration sponsored by Representative Leger Fernandez, will help.

It sounds like with the 2022 renegotiated memorandum that the Biden administration did make huge gains.

When we all are at the table, we can be more respective of each other.