Teresa Leger Fernandez

I am a proud Head Start baby myself, so I know the benefits that this program can bring to both families and communities.

We have a law that needs to be addressed, and we have a migrant issue that needs to be addressed.

The question on America's minds is will Congress pass legislation so that we can continue paying our Federal employees...

We actually need more funding to make sure we can adequately protect the parks and the people who attend them.

Republicans are stealing Americans joy in our parks.

What we are actually doing is making this problem worse, rather than solving it, so that we could then have some political theater around it.

If we do not actually provide the Biden administration with the funds, because we shut the Federal Government down...

Because what has changed is that now we have 14 States that have total bans on abortion, so we must do more to honor our commitment to our servicewomen. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).

We will name this clinic after him so that he can keep watch over his brothers and sisters in arms as their guardian angel. We will remember him, Gallup will miss him, a Nation will miss him, but most of all, we will continue to honor him…

I remind us all that we should be funding the government this week, not attacking individual States or workers. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as she may consume to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi), our inspiring Speaker…

What powerful words you shared with us, what a powerful story you shared with us.

We recognize the four decades that the United States has maintained a special relationship with the Freely Associated States.

It must also be to protect the places, to protect the people, to protect the reefs and the culture.

I want you to know that you are being heard, loud and clear.

We must back up those words with providing you with the services that you have earned and deserve.

Thank you, Madam Vice Speaker, and formerly Speaker, for sharing the importance of treating equal as equal.

We have heard that our people are scared of China because these are smaller islands and these are places where the threat could be easily carried out.

Approving the proposal to review the financial provisions of the Compact of Free Association with FSM, Palau, and the RMI will continue our engagement.

If we don't act quickly, I mean, every day that we wait to get better services, it is heartbreaking, somebody dies, right, somebody is ill.

Yes, we have a broken immigration system, but whose fault is that? Last Congress, we passed several bipartisan immigration bills, including the American Dream and Promise Act and the Farm Workforce Modernization Act. Did any of the…

I believe we must say that all the time, but I think even more importantly is that we need to recognize and provide the services and the honor and respect that our veterans deserve.

These Compacts are essential for continued security and our ability to do our work from a national security perspective.

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.

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.

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