The MHA Nation greatly appreciates Senator Heitkamp's sponsorship of S. 1942, 'Savanna's Act' and strongly supports its passage.

Will you, if confirmed, commit to pushing in the next DHS budget for sufficient funds to execute the Northern Border strategy?

How do we prevent? How do we respond? How do we address the radicalization?

You would support the use of unmanned aircraft technology as a piece of border security on both the Northern and the Southern Border?

I think it is critically important, and I would just ask that you pay particular attention to that problem.

We support the STOP Act's increased penalties for violations of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)...

Our cultural patrimony and heritage is sacred to us.

Congress declare[d] that it is the policy of this nation, in fulfillment of its special trust responsibilities and legal obligations to Indians to ensure the highest possible health status for Indians and urban Indians and to provide all…

Listening to what these incredible young people had to say reinforced the urgency with which we must act...

I hope you will work to pass the STOP Act out of this Committee and work with me to pass it in the full Senate...

I am proud that the STOP Act has the support of the National Congress of American Indians...

Indian patients have suffered from inefficiency and mismanagement at various levels of the IHS for too long.

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

I think, again, in our oversight capacity, we are going to be very concerned about cleaning out the backlog and making sure, and if you do not have the resources, we need to know that because it is only going to get worse if systemic…

We support the STOP Act's increased penalties for violations of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)...

We believe the STOP Act of 2017 will help end illegal trafficking in Native American tangible cultural heritage.

I do want to point out when you look at the budget, which was passed, which foretells what is going to happen in tax reform, there are some pretty serious cuts in that budget that will have a pretty dramatic effect on the ability of people…

We need to make sure this consultation process works and that we understand what might be an essential government function for a tribal entity is different perhaps than what would be an essential government function for a State government.