It is a huge problem for us. We have had enormous growth.
Because the need is real and you are quite right, the trust obligation does not cease simply because you are not on a reservation or in an a...
I have been to the facilities in Oklahoma City and Tulsa and they are terrific, and we get a lot of folks that would not get health care tha...
Mr. Chairman, you can see what our problem has been for about 500 years. There are a lot of Choctaws.
Thank you for the example you provide in the reinvestment of tribal funds back into education, back into services.
It just flows right back.
Part of the Choctaw Nation is in my district and I just do not want that to apply to every part.
this really is a huge problem jurisdictionally because historically you gave tribes the ability to have jurisdiction over their people but y...
Most of the mail I get on this issue, Mr. Chairman, is from people who do not own horses, who have never been around horses.
The politics are tough.
this idea that you have to give up part of your sovereignty to get some of it is really incredibly offensive.
What is your comfort level that Johnson-O'Malley funds... are actually used as they are intended to be used?
We would end paying for them in indigent care in some other facility when they are actually entitled to medical care.
Why would that be a problem to get some language that would eliminate that kind of ridiculous interpretation because these dual-use facility...
If you are not there and do not have these urban-based centers where so much of the native population is now off reservation and doing other...
I want to say how much I appreciate your emphasis on the energy part of this and just kind of make a point for the record if I may, Mr. Chai...
I agree. I understand the funding need as well, but I just want to point out for the record, Mr. Chairman, the Senate actually got that pass...
If I may, I just want to, for the record, thank you and thank Chief Pyle, who is just a remarkable leader.
