I want a commitment from you that these allotments are not going to continue to be delayed.
This is a concern and a consideration that, again, is extraordinarily concerning.
This is a project that has been under review for multiple administrations, beginning within the Obama Administration.
the growing climate solutions legislation that is being introduced today.
I have legislation that I have introduced with Senator Whitehouse, the Blue Carbon for Our Planet Act.
We are looking to develop a more fulsome proposal for our Alaska marine highway system.
It's not just about access, it's then affordability.
Broadband is one of those tools that if we don't have it, we're not a participant in the broader market out there.
There's no crumbling infrastructure because we haven't built it yet.
We got a lot of fish, but we don't have a lot of workers, and so we have been challenged year over year as it relates to...
We do not intend to compromise the funding of those cutters.
the fish don't really care what we're doing back here in Washington and what our timeline is
Well, we'll work with you on that.
Historically, pandemics have been very hard on our Native peoples.
The biggest thing we need to do to combat the variants is increase vaccination.
We must ensure that our tribal nations have the resources they need to combat this virus.
We certainly have much more that we need to do there.
This lack of basic resources, what most of us take for granted, but this, we certainly believe, helped produce or certai...
