Teresa Leger Fernandez

Your testimony states that, due to the Castro-Huerta ruling, Federal authorities will begin to pull their public safety resources out of Indian Country altogether.

We have, in essence, hobbled the ability of tribes to prosecute those crimes.

States will do a better job of protecting our children than our own governments.

Thank you very much, President Killer, for your testimony.

What we want to see is more opportunity for collaboration and cooperation.

I am concerned about issues where you have overlapping jurisdiction.

I am actually told that there is no word for hunger or poverty in Keres, or other indigenous languages because no one would be left hungry or without food or what they need to survive.

I want to pick up on the time remaining to me about the importance of purchasing that fresh produce made in dairy locally.

My legislation would allow an increase for reimbursement rates for Bureau-funded schools.

I am reintroducing the Tribal Nutrition Improvement Act to make sure tribes can administer directly food assistance programs.

Right now, currently Native Americans have some of the highest rates of food insecurity and the highest rates of diabetes.

I really appreciate your budget request of $100 million to provide employment and training assistance to workers in communities facing job losses related to the extraction of fossil fuels, or energy production.

Thank you Secretary Walsh for being the Secretary during the time when we've had the greatest job growth of any President, and in history.

We are about increasing the money that our working families get to take home as well as creating opportunities.

My constituents and I are sick of inaction. The House passed multiple bills to address the gun violence crisis...

The writers of our Constitution were concerned about what States might do to impact everybody's ability to vote and, in some ways, were looking into the future, those writers of our Constitution, and describing what we are seeing in…

And I haven't heard anybody say anything but that the election was safe and secure.

Honoring our Constitution means that you believe in Congress's role to protect voting for every citizen, regardless of color of skin or size of bank account.

Our concern is that, you know, these new restrictive laws, in conjunction with just the waves of misinformation that are coming, particularly misinformation targeting Latino voters, are going to discourage those voters.

So, Ms. Chairman, as you noted, even Governor DeSantis noted that the 2020 election was safe and secure.

This Republican tendency to threaten to criminalize a citizen's choice to vote, a citizen's choice, right, to control their own future, which you do by voting, is in stark evidence in Florida and in other States that we have heard about…

I really do believe that we really need to help our children who find themselves in the justice system so that instead of having their future stripped away, we can help reignite their dreams and aspirations.

This bill is about bringing out those stories, finding the information, getting the information you need

We owe it to our tribal brothers and sisters to do everything that we can to face a wrong, to right or wrong.

It is absolutely necessary. It is why we worked with this bill to make sure that this information comes to the boarding school survivors and their families and Tribal Nations and organizations who worked for the healing and the truth of…