Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

DACA recipients pay about $6.2 billion in Federal taxes alone. They pay another $3.3 billion in state and local taxes each year.

These DACA recipients are emblematic of the American Dream.

They are here lawfully. They pay more taxes than Facebook does.

Thank you so much, Dr. Montz, for joining us here today.

What in the American exceptionalism is going on here?

I cannot believe this.

My hope is that we can work together as a Committee to address some of these injustices, including considering solar royalties for some of these communities.

Native people and Indigenous communities have been abused, and have not been respected.

We see this, and it happens not just in this instance but in many others where I have brought this point in front of this Committee, that people deserve to know if they are being poisoned, whether it is by accident or whether it is by any…

To be clear, the kinds of pollution from that spill and a spill of that magnitude is profound, with highly noxious, hazardous air pollutants and methane that either leaked inadvertently or are vented or flared by operators.

And I think this is something that speaks to a pattern that we have seen in front of this Committee.

No? So, the company did not pay any fines for the impact of that spill.

So, the spill did occur?

I would be remiss without mentioning with some of the comments just shared that we have heard Native governments across this country stand up against the Keystone XL Pipeline, the Dakota Access Pipeline, that stood up against being…

Make no mistake, I am committed to continuing to working with the Navajo Nation, allottees, and other impacted individuals on the economic challenges of this proposition.

I strongly oppose this legislation, and I am grateful for the opportunity to weigh in.

Ocasio-Cortez, Hon. Alexandria, a Representative in Congress from the State of New York

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ, NY, Ranking Member

How could the Federal coal program be improved to make sure that mines are quickly and fully reclaimed in the industry?

Not only when these companies go bankrupt do they strip workers of their benefits, workers don't get health care, they don't get pensions.

When these coal companies go bankrupt, they shed their liabilities for health care and pensions.

A judge with the National Labor Relations Board found that Warrior Met Coal violated labor laws during the strike.

According to their 2022 annual report, Warrior Met made over $641 million in profit last year.

These workers had personally sacrificed to keep the mine running when the previous owner, Walter Energy, went bankrupt in 2016.

In March of this year, UMWA workers at Warrior Met Coal ended a 2-year strike with no improved contract.