Norman D. Dicks

We know that the President will nominate Dr. Yvette Roubideaux to be the next director of the Indian Health Service.

We are here to ask you to give the most serious consideration to continuing to fund these programs under BIA for those tribes who are never going to qualify for the Department of Justice.

I really feel that volunteerism is the way we should be going.

The air program has been flat-lined at $78 million since 1998.

I think we need to go back and have some form of grant program or we are never going to get these projects.

I have to thank you personally and on behalf of the tribe for putting the first money in the detention construction budget in 2009 in years.

These BIA and IHS programs provide a broad range of critical services to improve the health and safety of Native American people across the country.

I do not think I have ever had anybody come into my office, in 34 years, to talk to me about this.

We are also, like many of the other organizations that you have heard from this morning, in full support of full funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

The ocean acidification can make these situations worse.

The tribes need the base funding so that they can preserve what provides benefits for their community

We need to do more for education of our youth, because they are going to be the stewards of our natural resources in the future.