I just wanted to add to what Senator Lujan raised about the Office of Tribal Affairs.

We are looking at the largest investment in broadband deployment and adoption in this Country ever.

I'm just asking if you can commit to overseeing that timeline to ensure that we're not going to have this significant gap between now and 2027.

It seems to me that revoking Title 42 is going to be creating more problems than it will resolve.

This would include a portion of the Iditarod, but it would effectively go from Tidewater all the way up to Fairbanks.

Well, I am glad that you have raised that. I can't tell you the number of people who have said to me, you know, I am driving down the highway to go down to the Kenai, and it is just all this dead standing stuff, and there must be some use…

I think we are going to have a fair amount of follow-up here, but we have some good folks who are part of the call to work with our staff.

Well, critical and time is important. So I appreciate that.

I think we all recognize that pre-commercial thinning is useful, it is necessary for healthy forests, and as well as for the wildlife habitat.

You have record inflation going on, you have proposals that were submitted last summer, and they will be awarded later this summer.

I'm just curious as to whether or not there was a reason that it didn't make it into the final budget.

the secretary told us, he told the people of Southeast Alaska that it would ensure that a viable timber industry would continue to exist.

You confirmed to him that in fact the Administration has now decided to take an approach on mandatory as opposed to the advanced appropriation.

But there, when you think about our ability to be creative, let us create some value out of what is a dead commodity that will just eventually topple, and be nothing more than fodder for fires coming through.

I need you to commit to me to have BLM review the remediation and plugging standards that are used by the State of Alaska to see what improvements can be made to BLM's own standards.

I can't stress enough the need for the Department to move forward with final approval for the Willow Project.

These are not just priorities for Lisa Murkowski because I was raised in that area, and know of the use, but these are priorities for Alaskans up and down.

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.