Forty percent of the health care needs of American Indians are unmet.

No one should be embarrassed about this. No one should feel it is their fault.

It is a shameful thing that ought to be headline news across this Country.

It ought to be headline news in newspapers because it is a scandal.

the things are being turned around and we're getting very close to stabilizing the banking industry.

We can ill-afford to lose any jobs in Nevada, or anywhere else for that matter.

As Senator Murkowski said, we were in Alaska last week and presented a $1.5 million Garret Lee Smith grant to the State of Alaska.

This issue of suicide is very personal to me.

Suicide is preventable and help is available.

I have said that we have made it a priority at SAMHSA to make our resources available in Indian Country.

I do think there is room. I do think this is a good time to take a look at the mining law.

Let me be clear. The onerous mining law reform proposed by my colleague will not only threaten the domestic viability of large mining companies.

I would like to encourage the Committee to reconsider and to take a look at that again.

We have to get our mineral resources from somewhere, and I believe that we should get them in a responsible manner from domestic resources mined by American workers.

While I applaud my colleague's effort to modernize mining law, I am concerned about the consequences of this bill as written.

My primary concern is that changes made to the mining law should not serve to increase our dependence on foreign sources of mineral resources that our nation needs.

My fear after consulting with my constituents is that the cost imposed by this legislation will put them out of business, which will consequently increase economic problems in my state.

I want to thank the Ranking Member Lamborn also for the opportunity to be here.