How do you respond, though, to just the reality that that the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) creates a rural priority for subsistence based on where one lives.

Ensuring adequate funding for PL280 states to address the inequities among Tribal courts remains a top concern of mine.

I have long said that I do not believe that we have to choose between a healthy forest and a healthy economy.

I am going to be up in Fairbanks this weekend, and I can tell you this is going to be a hot, hot, hot topic there.

I hope we are able to reconcile that. Let us know if we can be helpful.

Well, and Madam Secretary, if I may, because I was at that roundtable with Secretary McDonough.

We don't have the luxury of time.

It is my hope that we can continue our bipartisan tradition to prioritize the needs of Native communities.

By failing to properly certify and test wood heater emissions the EPA has frustrated Congress' investments and intended goals.

As you well know we have a public safety issue in the State of Alaska, some have described it as a crisis.

I want to discuss the issue of opportunity between the Forest Service and many of our tribes, specific to tribal co-management.

How do you respond, though, to just the reality that that the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) creates a rural priority for subsistence based on where one lives.

I would like to have more conversation with your team about that.

A failure to have meaningful oil and gas programs, including in the 1002 area where the Administration is illegally disregarding the law, will reduce domestic investment at the worst possible time for our country and our global allies.

Madam Secretary, let's begin with the first part of my opening statement, which was reference to the people of King Cove.

I think that the Agency has not made this a significant enough priority.

You know that is not right. They know that is not right.

We can't be in a situation where we have got an impasse like this; would you agree?