I and jointly with Ranking Member Tim Bishop have written a letter to the House Appropriations Committee requesting thei...
I think all of us where you get it, we are trying to separate adequate resources from effective use of those resources.
This is a pivotal moment that we are at, pivotal.
This is a bipartisan effort, but--and the chairman and I are friends and he knows me well enough, he knows that nobody d...
I stand with you to get it done.
If we miss this opportunity or don't cease to rise to the occasion, then shame on all of us.
This nation is committed to getting this right.
What we do possibly within the next weeks and months will have decades long implications.
This is one of our greatest opportunities to make lasting improvement.
I respectfully request that you withdraw the interpretive rule.
I believe this IR has regulatory effect and that this effect may serve to dis-incentivize the very practices we are hopi...
I am concerned with the process by which this interpretive rule was effectively finalized.
I would shudder to think what Indian Country would look like without the revenues that come in from Indian gaming.
There is a lot of debate about gaming in general. But one aspect that is undeniable is the economic development benefit ...
The future of Indian gaming is bright, but we must remain vigilant.
If Indian gaming vanished tomorrow and all those needs shifted to Federal trust responsibility, what would that look lik...
We have made some progress in at least stabilizing the rate of childhood obesity in part because of the reforms that hav...
I supported the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act in 2010 when it passed on a bipartisan basis to overwhelming support.
