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Here is one. It is from the president of the Voice of the Arctic Inupiat, John Hopson, Jr. In terms of equity [racial equity] we understand that the Biden Administration has made promises domestically and internationally to curb this…

Since our president won`t say it, since he still hasn`t called off the dogs, we will say it. Police officers and first responders all across this great land, we got your back. We salute you.

Barack Obama`s friends from Chicago. Our opponent is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country.

We can help address the need for emergency food bank support by providing an additional $900 million for food purchases through TEFAP.

While the protections afforded in NAGPRA may not be applicable in every instance, I do hope that this committee can have a discussion on how NAGPRA's already existing Federal framework may be one of the many Federal tools that we can…

Because the role that the ANCs had been playing, as you point out now, for two decades, had really helped facilitate not only the inventory but the ability to work on the repatriation efforts.

only 21 percent of institutions have fully resolved all claims on human remains/items under NAGPRA; is it accurate to say that 79 percent are in non-compliance?

It is time, it is past time, that this Committee exercises its oversight role to ensure that the tools Congress has given Federal agencies under the law are being used to safeguard tribal communities from being locked out of decisions…

Now it still means that your tribes can continue the efforts, the non-profits can contribute the efforts for further repatriation.

So, according, again, to the Department, since NAGPRA was enacted, apparently only 21 percent of museums subject to the Act have resolved all Native American human remains that are under their control.

I will say thank you also for acknowledging that in the last 50 years, Alaska has developed different institutional arrangements than that of our lower 48 brothers and sisters.

Until Chairman Schatz gets back, I will begin the questioning.

Repatriation, and returning their remains with the respect and dignity that should be afforded, absolutely.

NAGPRA recognizes that human remains of any ancestry must at all times be treated with dignity and with respect.

Now is not the time to experiment with socialism.

I rise today to recognize and congratulate Linda Wilson, who recently retired from the U.S. Department of Education after over 33 years of service to the American people. Linda earned a degree from University of Arizona in 1980 before…

today I introduce the S.T.A.N.D. with Taiwan Act of 2022, which would mandate comprehensive and devastating economic and financial sanctions against the Chinese Communist Party, key sectors of China's economy, and leaders in the Chinese…

I have had an opportunity to listen closely to my friend Senator Kaine, who asked the important question about voting rights, about when--when are we going to act? And that is a question that is something that we, each of us, need to ask…