This is an area where we see rates that are, in my view, beyond intolerable.

If confirmed as NIH Director, I will work closely with you and with IC Directors to implement approaches that enable us to fund as many scientists as we can.

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Mr. President, I am on the floor again with my colleague from Texas, Senator Cruz, trying once again to pass our Pay Our Military Act. I am not going to spend a lot of time explaining what we are trying to do here since 48 hours ago we…

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In Alaska, roughly 20 percent of Native homes don't have an adequate supply of clean water or a connection to a sewer system.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I know that certainly factors into everything that we are trying to do in Alaska, because of course, everything needs to be flown up, it is either flown up or barged in the case of Alaska or Hawaii.

I want to shift to the issue that you raised, Ms. Davidson.

According to the IHS, one in ten Native Americans lacks access to clean water or indoor plumbing.

We can either fund another study or we can make an investment to protect our babies and to keep them in communities, our communities, where we belong.

The federal government has a trust responsibility to protect the water rights of Native peoples.

It should shock us as Alaskans. It should shock us as Americans that basic, basic matters like safe water, drinking water, basic sanitation needs are still so unmet in so many places.

If we could finish a project in three years, we would be happy. It just doesn't happen when your building season is really like three months long.

But I don't want to be in a position where we have finally answered people's prayers by saying, you are going to get all this Federal money, there is a lot in the pipeline, but then we just can't stuff it into the limited capacity pie that…

Yes, we have been learning a lot, I think just like anybody else who is doing any construction these days, that prices have changed, we are confronting supply challenges just to complete anything or with workforce.