I have one more topic I would like to talk about today. It is another important one, and it is one that many have been talking about here on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Many have spoken very eloquently about this topic, and depending on…

I find it completely unacceptable. Congress gave you a directive, you might not like it, but sometimes independent studies are what is needed.

it is not often I come down to the floor to say I have a lot in common with the Senate majority leader, Senator Schumer from New York. In fact, in my 6 years in the Senate, I don't think I have ever done that. But after reading his remarks…

Roughly 20 percent of rural Alaska Native homes still lack in-home pipe water.

These are the conditions that people in some of the parts of my State are dealing with when it comes to access to basic drinking water.

It is clear that the need is out there across Indian Country, certainly in our State, as Valerie Davidson has outlined.

It is time, it has been time to make a significant investment to just eliminate this problem once and for all.

My first bill that I ever co-sponsored as a U.S. Senator was the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention Act, which was signed into law by President Obama.

Despite the passage of legislation, including the Hannon Act, we are seeing a rise in suicides.

Do we have any way to determine whether these price hikes are justified?

How can we know whether or not, when you have reformatted the device for the inhaler, that somehow or another increases the efficacy?

Thank you for this very important hearing.

I would hope that we'd be able to advance provisions like what Senator Baldwin and I are trying to do.

We have moved out early in terms of the vaccination of Alaskans. Right now, it is 18.9 percent that are fully vaccinated.

The economy is still struggling. And the guidance that seems to be coming is not perhaps consistent with what we are seeing on the ground.

But what they are asking for is some kind of guidance in terms of timeline.

Certainty is helpful. We haven't had much certainty with this virus, and it has been challenging.

I want to follow-up with you, and I know we have an opportunity for that later and I will look forward to that.