Senator Tester and I have introduced legislation (S. 605) to statutorily reverse the disastrous Ninth Circuit Court decision in Cottonwood Environmental Law Center vs. U.S. Forest Service.

I urge you to get that back up and running as soon as possible. Work with these affected Tribal members to ensure they are receiving the care they need in the interim.

The construction and modernization of IHS infrastructure through healthcare facilities construction is essential to improve healthcare, quality, safety, cost, and value.

It is outrageous. It is heartbreaking. It is infuriating.

I would like your commitment that we could--that you would review each of Montana's Superfund sites with the goal of finding a workable solution for cleanup for each one of them.

I am a co-sponsor of legislation to reauthorize the SRS Program. It remains critical to our timber counties in Montana.

We cannot get enough logs. We are bringing logs in from Canada, bringing logs in from hundreds of miles away from other States.

It is ludicrous. This broken process has produced $20 trillion of debt.

But marring the successes of the Centennial that same year was the growing number of park service employee complaints about a workplace culture where bullying is rampant, sexual harassment goes unaddressed.

I look forward to presiding over the important work of this Subcommittee and working with you, Ranking Member Hirono.

I am not sure I have met a Member yet who is satisfied virtually in any way with IHS.

Maybe we as leaders should rename the agency Indian Health Suffering until they start serving the people of Indian country again.

As a SEAL Team 6 member in your past, you know that leadership starts at the top and I appreciate your leadership in that important area.

We think the process will be about 2 and a half to 3 years, which will be less than the 5 years.

I really could not agree more. Organizations will flex depending on how the leadership is directing the organization.

I was struck by D.C.'s continuing ineptitude, and this institution's failure, just this last budgeting cycle.

I think the swamp here has been created over years and years and years.

I am hopeful we will support that request because I think this committee is a common sense way to ensure the taxpayer gets a fair return.