I am honored to have worked with Native leaders in Alaska and across the Nation over multiple Congresses on these issues of public safety.
We need the commitment of our Federal partners, and in this area, I think we are making some progress.
Sometimes it is easier to have somebody be that assistance in some community somewhere else in America where they have no idea they are spea...
If you are in that position, we would like to see the direction and some proposal before we go on the August break.
We are trying to build some efficiencies, but that efficiency is going to come when we leverage the resources of everybody.
We were able to follow up with funding, and the next year appropriated $10 million for tribal courts in P.L. 280 States.
We saw that through passage of VAWA 2022, which included the tribal title that we authored.
The efficiencies that are created, we have seen them in play.
Thanks to VAWA 2022, tribes can prosecute more crimes of domestic violence as well as sexual violence, stalking, sex trafficking, and more.
The dental health aid therapist program, the DHAT program, is something that we put in place in Alaska.
One of the things that we see is a great disparity. I'm talking about rural, but so many of our rural communities are predominantly Alaska n...
I grew up in a part of the state where if you needed to go to the dentist, you got in an airplane or you got on a ferry.
I am a little bit concerned going into the 2025 process and beyond that we are going to appropriately prioritize these in the budget process...
We need some help with your teams to identify how we can address a problem.
Well, let us keep--again, we have got to have open lines of communication here, and we can't have everybody holding their breath waiting for...
