Thank you for the opportunity to submit this testimony.
I believe this is a powerful tool for meeting our energy security needs.
A struggling education system with consistently low scores and crumbling schools.
We need economic development in Indian Country, and for the inclusion of Indian Country in the new Administration's econ...
I applaud your efforts on this front, but as you no doubt are aware, we need to do more.
The need for reauthorization and improvement of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.
Secretary Salazar, you are part of the new administration and part of a new hope for Native Americans.
These needs of New Mexico tribes are replicated across the nation.
Secretary Salazar, I would like to begin by congratulating you on your confirmation to serve in President Obama's cabine...
High crime rates and a dilapidated system of prisons and jails need to be fixed.
This public health and environmental disaster left a trail of contamination and sickness that must be addressed.
If anything, the credit crisis has made the DOE loan guarantee program even more essential.
I look forward to the opportunity to work with this Committee to overcome the obstacles to participation.
I cannot think of anything more important than having the military have the right to vote when they are serving overseas...
I think we all want everybody to fully participate and we want to get people registered and give them that opportunity.
I think the chairman is right-on in holding this hearing and proceeding on this.
But we want to make sure that we have fair elections without fraud, and that is really the way to go.
This is, in my view, a national security imperative, that we find ways, and start planning for that time in the future.
