I am quite pleased that we had that legislative achievement, and I hope the advance helps with the predictable and stable funding for years to come.

DFC has blinders on, and is continuing to support all these fossil projects.

the budget you have put before us proposes $642, I am rounding off, million for Bureau of Indian Affairs' public safety and justice programs.

This subcommittee will come to order.

Those two species were like the core of the diet that supported the tribes from time immemorial.

it addresses the housing issue, so we have money set aside there, about $45 million.

We need to really reduce the risk of fire and that means directing resources to do forest management.

Somehow the prospect of working for the Forest Service while you live in your car is not such an entertaining one.

please, any extra attention you can give to that Warm Springs project will be much, much appreciated.

I encourage you to persist aggressively, given the consequences of failure, and we certainly have a deeply entrenched company, or companies, determined to keep addicting children.

We found the three C's, if you will. We found the cartels. We found the corruption, and we found the climate change.

I am quite impressed by the way we have responded, but I do think that the circumstances regarding Hong Kong, Ukraine, and China's use of high-tech to suppress the Uyghurs are very appealing strategies to many authoritarian leaders.

I am going to keep working to pass the Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act, to clarify in statute.

One of the things that both Russia and China have been engaged in is transnational repression and last week, I introduced a bill with Senators Rubio, Cardin, and Hagerty, a comprehensive bill.

I am quite pleased that we had that legislative achievement, and I hope the advance helps with the predictable and stable funding for years to come.

Your position as the first Native American Cabinet Secretary is historic.

The world needs American leadership and to lead we have to have the power of our example.

Congress needs to provide for an annual base funding increase to support ongoing operation and improvement obligations.