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In so many of our small, rural communities, their power is diesel generation. We want to get them off it.

We have got to figure out what the funding plan is going to be for a port like Nome given the national security imperative.

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.

There is about a $1.5 billion in deferred maintenance issue for over 200 bulk fuel farms throughout rural Alaska.

In so many of our small, rural communities, their power is diesel generation. We want to get them off it.

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 the next funding cycle, hoping that we are going to get enough for that next phase.

We have got to figure out what the funding plan is going to be for a port like Nome given the national security imperative.

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 have seen investment really lacking. And I think both of you would agree with that.

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 native.

We have improved dramatically since then, but we still have far too many communities where access is an issue.

I want to focus on access to oral health, dental care in rural areas, because it's really hard.

The dental health aid therapist program, the DHAT program, is something that we put in place in Alaska.

A factory trawler is not a village that has been there for 12,000 years.

In my experience, the definition of 'coming soon' in government is a much different definition than 'coming soon' for non-government people.

I just really want to emphasize this ongoing crisis that our commercial fishermen are in. They are in a freefall.

We need some help with your teams to identify how we can address a problem.