This Subcommittee is united in its commitment to the social and economic wellbeing of Native Americans.

First reading the newspaper a while ago, I read the Federal Government is currently involved in an outrageous lawsuit over naming rights at Yosemite Park.

the EPA was only doing that work because it was stepping in to clean up an abandoned mine that had been polluting the area for decades.

How many abandoned mines is the EPA currently working on?

Utilities are very engaged in this issue, because, frankly, the energy system is transitioning already.

I believe, and I think there are other committee members here who would agree, that is imperative that tribal nations have the resources and the staff to develop competitive grant proposals.

This is going to be Administrator McCarthy's last time testifying before the committee.

I also want to applaud you for the triumphant reopening of the Renwick.

Any inspector that did a drive-by inspection and said that was a good job is a person who needs to be held accountable.

There are dozens of school facilities in need of replacement literally all over Indian Country.

I was just aghast. I wanted to say something, but I did not know what I would say.

So I am going to point blank ask you: when can this committee expect to see a list?

That is why we increased the replacement construction funding, and you know the dollars: school replacement construction by $25 million, facility replacement by $12 million.

Housing needs to be good for the people in the tribal nations.

I would like to talk about the decision that was made in this budget to cut law enforcement by $7 million and tribal justice support by $8 million.

I think we need to start talking to our colleagues on the Appropriations Committee, and our colleagues in general, as to how much not only have we cut our personal offices from being able to do things, but we have cut to the bone, GAO, and…

We have a willing partner in trying to fix this. But we have to have a plan to fix it, because as more of these inspections bring things to light, there is going to be more pent-up demand to do it right.

That is an earmark for Flint.