this is clearly a program that has great success.
In my view, our objective today should be to celebrate the resilience of our Indian businesses.
this is an incredible program to advance not only this generation, but multiple generations in employment and self-suffi...
I am just not aware of that as being ever on the table. Our office has never taken a position that ANCs should not parti...
I think we recognize in Alaska just measuring things by dollars oftentimes is not a sufficient or an adequate measuremen...
If reforms are needed to ensure that the Indian 8(a) Program achieves its objectives, let's get them out on the table.
Do you think that what you have laid out with the new regulations there, do you think that these adequately address the ...
I appreciate that.
There is no such thing as an Alaska Native Corporation 8(a) Program.
Shouldn't we allow these regulations an opportunity to work, to go into effect, to play out?
I guess the question is--certainly I am not familiar with anybody trying to exclude ANCs 100 percent from the program.
We appreciate the efforts of our elected representatives, Senators Murkowski and Begich, and Congressman Young.
One of our tribes in Nebraska, the Winnebago Tribe, literally was experiencing unemployment at a 70 percent rate.
They decided they didn't want the world to be that way, and so they went to work.
There is no question that there have been challenges in years past on making sure the 8(a) corporations are successful.
These are great examples of why the program and the many members that I know within the 8(a) corporations are incredibly...
Just leave us alone and we will be okay.
it is more important to talk to the people who actually do the business.
