"This bipartisan Crow Water Settlement Amendment Act will do exactly that."
"I share Indian Country's frustration with Congress' failure to pass a universal fix."
"the Carcieri decision put rebuilding tribal homelands into a tailspin, and for 15 years, it has slowed Interior's land-into-trust process"
"I am a long-time supporter of this effort, following the enforcement of the 2009 Supreme Court decision that wrongly oppressed some tribes for having land taken into trust."
"we also have to be singing from the same song book, understanding what is happening."
"We have recommited and doubled down on our obligation."
"one of the fundamental trust and treaty obligations to tribal nations is to protect the public safety on their lands."
"it is abundantly clear that public safety challenges persist."
"Congress has affirmed and reaffirmed this obligation, from the General Crimes Act of 1817 to the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010."
"I am glad that Congress finally got its act together and passed the National Security Supplemental, but just like the regular appropriations bill, it was needlessly delayed by many months."
"We owe it to those veterans to treat them as any other veteran."
"I detect in the questions from the other side some fundamental misunderstandings about what tribal consultation actually consists of."
"Statement of Senator Schatz"
"Can you reassure me that this thing is going to get stood up quickly?"
"I think I speak for most of us when we'd say this is one of our favorite hearings. It gives us the most hope about the future."
"My bill, the CONNECT for Health Act, cosponsored by 63 of my bipartisan Senate colleagues, would ensure permanent expansion of Medicare telehealth coverage."
"We have to draw distinctions around drug policy and a kind of move towards liberalization of drug policy."
"Sixty-eight grand is what we have in Federal statute."
