Indian health should have never been subjected to that. Actually, everybody admits that now.
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We should never have to. In the Indian Health Service, we are the ones who provide care just as the veterans do.
We need some help across the rotunda. We are not doing it fast enough, but it is even slowed down when both the Administration and the Senate don't put any money in for school construction, and it is frustrating the heck out of me.
You just said that violence against women was 10 times higher.
And it is because we all work together. The whole state works together on this.
It is a big, big state. But thank you all for being here today.
Personally, being from Idaho, Alaska is the one state I have never been to, one of the two or three, which is kind of surprising.
There are more facilities falling into disrepair and un-serviceability than there are facilities coming online.
I think one of the greatest areas of opportunity is really investing in the IHS program space.
The chances are everything is probably not wrong. Maybe there are a few things that need to be straightened out.
We have at least $30 million of outstanding claims. Like the gentleman prior said, those dollars are spent.
Please urge IHS to promptly settle outstanding contract support claims.
Never, ever give up on hope, I say. Keep faith, hope, and love life.
We are proud we are natives. And regardless of what the Federal Government does to us, we are going to survive.
I would like to focus on contract support cost funding, irrigation and other drought assistance and public safety and healthcare to illustrate how important federal appropriations are to Indian Country.
First and foremost, I want to discuss our healthcare needs and the dangers of sequestration.