I would like to commend both tribes for their leadership in restoring this land to tribal ownership and signing a covenant to forever protect the land as a sacred site and memorial to the victims and survivors of the Wounded Knee Massacre.

I do want to be clear, though, this legislation in no way absolves the Federal Government of its actions in one of the deadliest Indian massacres in our Nation's history.

I want to thank Senator Rounds for bringing this and I want to thank you for your sharing your family's story.

It is time for Congress to step up, place this land in restricted fee status and effectuate this covenant.

It is time for Congress to step up, place this land in restricted fee status and effectuate this covenant.

I want to thank Senator Rounds for bringing this and I want to thank you for your sharing your family's story.

I do want to be clear, though, this legislation in no way absolves the Federal Government of its actions in one of the deadliest Indian massacres in our Nation's history.

It is time for Congress to step up, place this land in restricted fee status and effectuate this covenant.

I would like to commend both tribes for their leadership in restoring this land to tribal ownership and signing a covenant to forever protect the land as a sacred site and memorial to the victims and survivors of the Wounded Knee Massacre.

I believe that we have a responsibility to ensure that the voices of Native Americans are heard.

Thank you. I am just sitting over here having an existential crisis.

And it also--if I may, sorry, it also prevents rural people, because ANILCA isn't just for natives, it is for rural people, whatever their ethnicity is.

We are seeing farmlands eroded, port facilities eroded, airport runways eroded through rising seawater.

I give President Biden credit for keeping the unity of NATO, revitalizing NATO.

We're cutting defense spending and -- when it's a very dangerous world. Everybody agrees we -- should not be going below 3% of defense spending.

The biggest national security issue from my perspective, Chuck, is the Biden administration is continuing to put forward defense budget cuts during what everybody -- and the president agrees with this, so does the security of defense…

Just recognizing that things around here don't necessarily move very quickly, it seems to me that if there were identified areas or maps that we are talking about, the process moves forward a little bit more quickly, rather than, it seems…

So you raise an issue that I would like to finish off my question back to you, Secretary Newland.