Ours is a great country, and for us to take time off to give thanks is important to our spirit.

You have been a great partner in our work to improve the District and have been, what else can I say, a zealous advocate for its residents for 22 years, and I am still counting.

I believe you will do the best you can, once confirmed.

We look forward to continuing to help in our own ways to keep our country great and our people just.

I support H.R. 6156, the Russia and Moldova Jackson-Vanik Repeal Act of 2012, with some reservations. Russia became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in August of this year. If the United States is to benefit from the non…

this CR funds the government for the next 6 months at a level agreed to by the Budget Control Act. It contains a minimum of anomalies and allows adequate funding for disaster relief. This is an inefficient way to fund our Federal…

today I wish to join my colleagues in bringing attention to Alzheimer's disease and dementia, which tragically affects so many people across our Nation, including in my home State of Hawaii. Today, the Alzheimer's Association recognizes…

I believe the record should show how much we appreciate the work of the distinguished Senator from Mississippi, the vice chairman of the committee, Thad Cochran. We have demonstrated to our colleagues that bipartisanship works in this…

today, as we near the end of the current fiscal year, the Senate is considering H.J. Res. 117, a continuing resolution to ensure that the Federal Government will remain functioning through March of next year in the absence of regular…

I would like to reiterate this Administration's commitment to the government-to-government relationship with tribes.

this Government needs to continue to adjust those changes as we move along in the best interests of the people.

This Country made treaties with the Indian Tribes, just as we did with a diversity of foreign nations.

The broad terms Indian and Tribes represented a diversity of people with unique cultures, languages and traditions indigenous to the United States.

to me culture is like a tree. If you cut the tree from the roots, which is a culture, you know, there is a huge loss of something.

All of us here in this room and the Committee staff, all will have to continue to educate our colleagues here in the Congress to know as much as they can about our indigenous people.

So, that is my question and you can feel free to expound on this because I have always felt that culture should be playing a huge part in what happens to the groups.

A Native Hawaiian government would improve efficiency through coordination of resources and services.

Overall, these policies of assimilation failed to meet the Federal trust responsibility to Native peoples.