[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 96 (Wednesday, June 5, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H3670]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  WE MUST PROTECT OUR PRECIOUS WATERS

  (Ms. STANSBURY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. STANSBURY. Mr. Speaker, in New Mexico, we say water is life.
  Yet, 1 year ago this week, the United States Supreme Court handed 
down a 5-4 Sackett decision that gutted the Clean Water Act.
  This decision shocked the Nation, defied science, hydrology, and even 
common sense, upending years of precedent and going even farther than 
the last administration in undermining the Clean Water Act.
  In the process, it left over 90 percent of New Mexico's waters 
vulnerable, but as New Mexicans, we always rise to the occasion, which 
is why I am proud of our State's efforts to create a new surface water 
program and the funding that I helped to secure through the process. To 
get it done, we are going to need the support of our communities, of 
the State legislature, and our Federal agencies. Here in Congress, we 
have to continue to fight to protect the Clean Water Act because our 
precious waters can't wait. The time to act is now.

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