The shutdown illustrated the importance of providing funds to Indian Country in some form of advance.

We want them to know who they are. We have lost enough of our children that way.

I urge you to make equitable and non-discretionary Federal funding available directly to tribal nations.

I urge you to support the swift transition to clean energy and away from dirty fossil fuels that damage public health and our public lands.

In 2000, the FTC recommended that Congress enact a consumer internet privacy legislation.

Great nations like great men should keep their word.

The funding has never been adequate and everybody knows that. It will never be adequate.

We are asking for a $24 million line item ask to support the tribal task.

If one group of people on this planet knows how to stretch the dollar, it is us.

Our people are dying. People are dying in a manner that we can't control.

We are asking for a $95 million line item increase for the urban Indian health programs.

This cannot be the only place in America where Americans citizens who have, under treaty rights, been promised their healthcare do not have it available to them.

It is imperative that we hear the best science, and that we understand the impacts so that we can begin to act on climate change.

In your testimony, you mentioned that we need to provide our agencies with clear, informed mandates to begin preparing for climate change.

I walk to work every day. Just letting you know that. And I haven't used a plastic disposable water bottle since I have been here on Capitol Hill.

Thank you so much. I wanted to go until noon.

now is the time to act on climate change. We can't wait any longer.

We should not be allowing decisions to be made that are not going to be effective for what we want our government to be doing for us.