the trust responsibility is one that is there, Federal Government with the tribal communities, and needs to be one that is respected and worked with and understood.

Thank you, and thank you both, Senator Johanns and Senator Moran, for participating today.

I just want to add to the earlier comments about the impact on small rural telephone cooperatives of a potential new increase in terms of the local service rate floor.

We need funding to implement FATCA.

Thank you both.

The trust responsibility is one that is there, Federal Government with the tribal communities, and needs to be one that is respected and worked with and understood.

we welcomed your plan to scrap that.

The thing that is striking to me from your 2012 Broadband Progress Report is 19 million Americans lack access to broadband.

You are absolutely right that this idea... would benefit consumers.

My State of New Mexico ranks 44th among 50 States when it comes to broadband access, and over 14 percent of New Mexicans do not have access to broadband.

In my second question, I wanted to focus on rural broadband. And as you are well aware, this is a really, really critical challenge.

E-Rate helps make that possible.

I understand that the President's budget zeroed out a categorical grant program for radon detection and information.

This settlement helps to right a historic injustice to the Navajo people and the surrounding communities.

I think this is historic, and I think it is going to make a big difference to the Navajo Nation and to many places where you have this uranium contamination.

BIE schools lost $42.2 million as a result of sequestration.

Tribal Head Start programs lost $11.9 million as a result of sequestration, impacting 25,000 children in 26 States.

This was a painful, unnecessary, arbitrary cut to communities that can ill afford them.