correspondence issues

we will not be able to get the support that we need for Israel, for Ukraine, for the Indo-Pacific, for the disasters, unless there is true, meaningful border security as part of this supplemental.

I strongly support improving and keeping tele-health opportunities as available as possible.

I think today's conversation is equally important, and that is a focus on our borders here within the United States and a recognition that when there is unrest and war abroad, we are never safe on our own territory.

we know that Native Americans, Alaska Natives as a population demographically are dying in the past two years of drug overdoses more than any other populations out there.

Senators Cantwell and Mullin introduced S. 2695, the 'Parity for Tribal Law Enforcement Act.'

we talked about fentanyl. There is a significant increase, significant provision in the supplement to combat fentanyl.

we have to be doing more when it comes to treatment.

During the COVID pandemic, opioid overdose mortality rate among Alaska Native people doubled.

To assume that we are so is naive and ill-informed, ill-placed.

we need to get the Federal dollars to the places that don't have anything first.

They are targeting these small, remote, rural, vulnerable communities. It is the worst predation there can possibly be.

I have heard stories from people across Alaska, some of the most rural and distant parts of our country, of about 20 people sharing a house with only three bedrooms and one bathroom. They sleep in shifts because they don't have enough…

the Federal funding and programs should be focused on the communities that don't have anything?

I heard you say multiple times here this morning that comprehensive reform is needed. I think we would all agree that comprehensive reform is needed.

we have a challenge that is so big and so enormous, it is going to take exactly what you all are doing in Lummi Nation.

It's critical that we listen to the voices of Native communities in this fight.

It speaks to the lack of resources for education, for treatment, for preventive services and public safety in Alaska Native communities.