Today we are meeting for the first of what I hope will be several hearings on mining in America.
We should hold a hearing focusing on the importance of an expanded domestic mineral supply.
Members from Western States like mine will fight vigorously to keep these jobs because the West cannot survive off of to...
The volatility and uncertainty of these distressed economic times have left people fearful of losing their jobs, their h...
I look forward to bridging the divide and working with the members of the Committee on both sides of the aisle to addres...
We must work together to find solutions that will benefit our aging population.
Due to these financial constraints, they are faced with tough choices, such as delaying retirement.
Can you give us some thoughts about how to ensure that the right level of rigor is applied to make sure that we really a...
Every private property rights advocate would agree that a landowner must be protected from unreasonable takings of their...
But the other side of the coin is that private property rights must also mean that landowners should be free to sell or ...
It is purely the consequence of the loss of liquidity in the market.
It would seem that if there were a way to create an environment, some sort of backstop of some kind to be able to get th...
The problems we have with health care... are simply exacerbated over what we see with non-Native American communities.
If I may, Chairman Dorgan, one of the realities of this Department that I have frankly discovered in the first few weeks...
One in three Native American women will experience sexual assault in her lifetime. This is an atrocity.
I am a strong supporter of the principle of tribal self-determination and will work to fully enable tribal self-governan...
I think that when one has to wait for a process that lasts 31 years to get an answer, that it is too long.
The issues of Native Americans are not to be partisan issues, they are not to be Democrat or Republican issues.
