I believe that every time the words 'State and local government' appear in the Code, we should also read 'tribal government.'

That is ridiculous. If you have a government pension plan and you are running a pension plan at a tribal-owned business, you have to maintain a separate pension plan.

We hope your leadership on this issue will lead to tribal tax priorities being included in tax reform.

We urge the prompt passage of the STOP Act and thank the Committee for its attention to this important matter.

Additionally, Chairman Hoeven recently introduced a bill (S. 2012) with Senators Murkowski and Heitkamp that would provide priority status for NMTC allocations for tribal enterprises and reservation investments.

we know we are under funding treaty responsibilities with appropriations.

Chairman Hoeven recently introduced a bill (S. 2012) with Senators Murkowski and Heitkamp that would make permanent the Indian Employment Tax Credit.

As Congress considers the most significant tax reform since 1986, we have a shared responsibility to ensure federal tax policy provides tribal governments the same opportunities as other governments.

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.

we are going to look very closely at any kind of tax rewrite to try and see if we are going to fix these problems we know exist.

tribal governments should not take a back seat to State governments.

I think this is a mistake and risks the success of the 2020 Census in States, especially in the western United States.

I want to applaud your answer in understanding that the bulk of people, you are going to find pretty easily, and it is the marginalized population that we need to work very hard at getting to cooperate and counted.

For too long, we have given Indian Country the leftovers. Members of these communities deserve to be counted where they reside, just like any other person.

I think it is critically important that you think about these add-ons or these extras that you are doing in terms of data collection because it does negate the relationship that you have with the citizen.

One of the concerns that I have... is that all of our talk about mitigation... will take a back seat.

Simply put, the 2020 Census is in trouble.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And, thank you to my colleague from New Hampshire for letting me go first.