So your thoughts on whether you separate them out and can you tell me where you may be on this report for village-built clinics (VBCs)?

So, I mean, this has been the challenge, is the ability to understand and predict what we can anticipate year over year.

I want to shift now to broadband.

So you don't see that there would be any additional scrutiny or anything that would slow or hinder these renegotiations then?

Including whether or not overpayments have been made?

So there's some buzz out there that this may be a situation where Cook Inlet was just one example.

I have consistently raised this funding as a priority in our hearings.

But since the 105(l)s have started being paid, we've seen estimates really kind of all over the board, I think wildly unpredictable, and they have certainly injected some budget uncertainty into the process.

I think there's going to continue to be a need for both the village-built clinics program and the 105(l) lease account.

So in theory, if there's not a discretionary proposal for the Interior bill this year, there's $6.6 billion that is currently unaccounted for.

So, Mr. Chairman, my time is well over. I may come back to this because I'm trying to determine whether or not there's been any type of a comprehensive analysis of whether or not overpayments are at issue and the extent of that.

The Senator greatly appreciates the Secretary's time and attention to the unique needs of Alaska with respect to broadband deployment.

Which has been a frustration of mine because again we've got to figure it out here and we're all trying to look into that crystal ball to understand where we're going, what is it going to look like, and we've asked for a more reliable…

Rollback of the updates to NEPA reinstate burdensome requirements that will cause excessive permit delays and allow project adversaries to use frivolous lawsuits to disrupt and upend long overdue construction.

Delaying infrastructure is not good government. I voted for the Infrastructure Bill; Senator Capito voted for the Infrastructure Bill. This completely undermines the ability build infrastructure.

Help me in good governance with 'aesthetic, historical, cultural, economic, social, and health impacts.' Who the heck can do that for every project in America?

Every U.S. Senator said, hey, we should get our critical minerals and technology from America, our allies, and not China and not Russia.

I guarantee you they are not doing it to Delaware.