Incarcerating kids, if they are Native, for drinking and not if they are White does not seem very fair.

We need to ensure that our policies reflect the unique needs of Native communities.

Throughout his service in Congress, Senator McCain was a real champion for Indian Country.

I think it is critically important.

I want to recognize a Federal employee I have had the privilege of working with for the past 5 and a half years, Judy DesHarnais, deputy for programs and project management with the St. Paul District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers…

At the time when I was looking at statistics, it would be two to three times higher.

One of the last bills Senator McCain was able to get passed was our bill which would allow for Amber Alert in Indian Country.

There needs to be a much more aggressive attitude about trying to figure out what is going on with Native kids.

The level of frustration we all have about the lack of statistics and data is overwhelming.

He was one of the Committee's longest-serving members, serving twice as Chairman of this Committee.

He was truly a colleague and a friend.

We must do more to support Native youth and ensure they have access to the resources they need.

Until someone tells me how they are going to be better regulated and how we are going to get these facilities into compliance so that children are not abused, either sexually or physically, it is going to be really hard for us to expand…

Now we have all these kids that we do not know what to do with and we cannot find their parents or their parents may have left without them, and they are in facilities where they are being abused, sexually assaulted.

If we can just kind of take away all of the layers and say we are going to focus on keeping children safe, because children had no choice on whether they were going to come to the border.

I do not think that is right, and I do not think it reflects American values.

Whose responsibility is it to fix that problem and investigate it and prosecute it?

What are the major issues left to resolve in terms of getting Canada into an agreement on NAFTA?