I found your testimony this afternoon extremely moving. And I am sincerely hopeful that this represents the starting point of a process that can bring some healing and some catharsis to the victims of this terrible tragedy, like yourself…

So, with the subpoena power that will allow us to make sure the records do come forward in a timely fashion.

Thank you, Madam Chair. And thank you to you and to the author for bringing this bill forward and for convening this hearing on a very important topic.

This hearing will be an opportunity to discuss whether the establishment of a commission is the correct solution.

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These members clearly have relevant information for the committee and for the country, and they took an oath to uphold the Constitution. This is part of upholding the oath.

Without a doubt, there will be new information and new details. We expect in these, you know, multimedia presentations that include live testimony, video, audio documentary evidence to provide a kind of important texture to this nefarious…

The Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act is a first step toward achieving necessary measures of accountability.

This hearing may seem timely, especially after this report, but let's not forget that to this day, the United States has not acknowledged or apologized for its actions during the Boarding School Era.

Thank you, Chairman Crow. I want to thank you for holding this hearing, and I want to thank all of our witnesses for testifying today.

Thank you, Chair Payne, for holding this hearing, and thank you to our witnesses for participating.

I think my sense of frustration, my sense of rage, my sense of disappointment my anger as a citizen of this country that I feel like my own ability to control my health care is being taken away from me.

Quid pro quo is the most spurious form of corruption that there is.

This is the first time that the House Natural Resources Committee has ever made a criminal referral.

It seems to me that the railroad is not willing to do voluntarily what is necessary or right.

I think what we see from that is, when we have competing permits on public land...

We are trying to solve yesterday's problem tomorrow. This was a problem that has been a long time in coming.

It is time to act today to reform the mineral law so that we set ourselves up on a good path.