I think it is doable, even in the economic climate we are in with the Obama Administration.

Contract Support Costs are vital to bolstering sovereignty while ensuring that the federal government is fulfilling its trust responsibility.

I think one of the ways to meet the backlog, and I know that you are going to argue for this within the Administration, is to come up with a multi-year plan.

I was unclear from your testimony whether you all actually consider it a cut or it is a flat budget from over last year.

I want to thank you for holding this hearing, and I would also like to associate myself with your remarks.

I think there is something positive there that we can build on.

We need to have a multi-year plan.

There was a Bureau of Indian Affairs Inspector General report just several years ago that covered some of these conditions.

Thank you, Chairman Rockefeller, for again focusing this committee's attention on cyber security.

I just want to remind them that the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has done two of the four key models used by the U.S. climate program.

Let us not waste this opportunity for gold.

Climate change is a moving target, and clearly what would happen behind us to the east on the Organ Mountains could be completely different than what we saw in Hatch or down in El Paso.

I think they're out there, on the ground, dealing with this every day.

I think that we can reconcile these things and still do what these areas and the people here deserve.

I also want to thank this panel for being very specific at this point in land, very constructive.

Thank you.

There has been a real attempt to try to deal with the realities in working with the Border Patrol and having an understanding with them.

I believe that there is great potential for this area to provide tourism-related jobs.