We can say with confidence that among these tribes there is at least one Silver Star winner, two Bronze Star winners...

It is absolutely long overdue, and I appreciate, Governor, your leadership and, Representative Moran, your leadership on this issue.

There is no doubt the Jamestown settlement would have perished if it had not been for the forbearance and the assistance of the Virginia tribes who enabled it to survive.

But it was scrutiny of the historic records and academic materials and oral folklore of the tribe members themselves.

If I could write it myself, I would rather have them have the exact same rights as Virginia citizens have--no more, no less--and we don't have gaming in Virginia.

I strongly believe that our recent commemoration of the 400 years of modern Virginia history will be incomplete without successful Federal recognition of these Virginia Tribes.

It is time for these Virginia native peoples to be recognized by their own country.

How can we commemorate their history and not recognize their existence? Now is the time to reconcile history.

Virginia perpetrated this monstrous injustice for a very long time.

This bill deals with tribes who encompass the best known stories of the interaction between those who settled this country from Europe and the Native populations who lived in this land when the settlement occurred.

It is time to finally right an historic wrong for Virginia and the Nation.

Congress has the power to recognize these Tribes. It has exercised this power in the past, and it should exercise this power again with respect to our Virginia Tribes.

the constitutional authority to deal with international trading partners in the E.U. or other parts of the world really lies with the Federal Government

It seems a little crazy that they had to go through this additional step to try to benefit from this program.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

You don't have to say container, but what I'm trying to do is to get something that's measurable, where we can look in a logical way at what these changes are going to do to the resupply pattern in there.

For our purposes, I think we may be looking at the necessity of a more robust Federal response.

In other words, what we are moving through Pakistan right now. Per container, what's the cost of moving it that way, what's the time, what's the volume that we are able to move over a period of time, say a quarter, 3 months, whatever it…