They need action that helps solve problems, not actions that further delay solutions.

The hope is that we can reach agreement on the contours of the exchange in the coming year.

let's talk about the Alaska Native Vietnam Vets Allotment Program.

We have a trust and treaty obligation. That absolutely includes health care, education, housing, and so forth.

Madam Secretary, let's begin with the first part of my opening statement, which was reference to the people of King Cove.

To me, as an Alaskan, from a State that has extraordinary natural gas reserves, the fact that we would even be uttering these words is almost inconceivable to me.

I would like to have more conversation with your team about that.

There is a common sense, straightforward solution here to getting communities off diesel power generation.

I appreciate that.

it is inconceivable to me; I mean when you talk about 1.6 million acres of a beetle kill, seems to me that our communities would be eligible for more than one of these Community Grant Programs.

Working to address the tribal needs has always been a bipartisan, bicameral priority.

A failure to have meaningful oil and gas programs, including in the 1002 area where the Administration is illegally disregarding the law, will reduce domestic investment at the worst possible time for our country and our global allies.

They need you to be a warrior for them.

I am hoping that you are going to be able to provide us a little bit more of a plan.

It is nice to have Senator Fischer on.

But I do want to impress upon you that right now the community leaders, the mayors of the Borough of the Kenai Peninsula, as well as within the Anchorage area, they are coming to me, not for more in appropriations, because they are not…

this is new for us. And what we are seeing, it is traveling like wildfire, and what you look at, as you are as on the coast, or flying above, you can visually see the movement there.

We want to put that into just nothing more than bad memories.