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I want to assure you all that your testimony is important and we take it very seriously.

I appreciate the work that you are doing and have done with us trying to address this disparity.

At the federal level, if SRF funding is maintained at the fiscal year 2012 mark, we would not meet the identified needs using federal funds for more than 250 years.

What we need is some cooperation with the body across the rotunda and we all need to be working off the same numbers.

How do we decrease this disparity, not just between Native Americans and the rest of the American population, but the disparity within Indian tribes?

At the same time we have a massive federal debt of more than $16 trillion, which demands that we reduce federal spending.

I plan on being around. I plan on seeing that happen, at the same time I see us finishing our appropriation bills by October 1.

There are excuses that are made all the time for not doing what is our responsibility, not fulfilling our responsibilities.

The trust responsibility was a promise to provide education, to provide healthcare, and for the well-being of natives

What are the consequences of deleting the language that prevents the expansion of grades in existing schools?

We have a responsibility here just as we do with the DOD schools.

We need to do the same thing with Indian education.

The physical condition of them, is really highly suspect and something needs to be done.

The conditions in schools affects the quality of their education and went through a variety of reasons why it does that.

Without a fix, automatic spending cuts will take effect in just a few days and could send our economy into reverse at a time when we should continue moving forward on creating jobs.

It is unacceptable that we are lurching from one manufactured crisis to the next, and Americans have had enough.

We must do all we can to restore confidence in not only our financial system, but also in our ability as a country to tackle long-term challenges in a responsible, bipartisan manner.

I completely agree with him.