Congress needs to provide for an annual base funding increase to support ongoing operation and improvement obligations.

I think it is an incredibly important investigation and report. We need to shine a light on the past in order to understand issues that may help us direct into the future.

Amen to that. And I have a bill to change that, so Thank you, for drawing attention and spotlighting that issue.

I think this is particularly challenging in Tribal settings where people may be more remote, have fewer folks nearby to assist.

We have a lot of Tribes in both of our states, and a lot of work to be done on many fronts.

I hope the results of those meetings will be that these Tribes that haven't been able to participate in the program, will be able to get their feet on the ground, and get started.

Thank you Chairman Jeff Merkley, Ranking Member Lisa Murkowski, and Members of the subcommittee for your leadership to reduce pollution in rivers, improve clean water access, safeguard public drinking water supplies.

It is imperative to look at a wide range of topics, because those topics are so interwoven.

A major driver is a $742 million increase to expand access to health care across all IHS Direct Service lines.

I do not want to see us moving backwards.

please, any extra attention you can give to that Warm Springs project will be much, much appreciated.

Thank you very much.

Thank you. I am going to be pretty strict about us sticking to our time limits.

The Budget is a historic step and the start of an ongoing conversation with Tribes to ensure the IHS system is meeting the healthcare needs in Indian Country.

This subcommittee will come to order.

And for the first time, we provided $5 million specifically for FRIMA activities.

I want to turn to the Western Oregon operating plan (WOOP), as it is referred to, and this is a plan that coordinates the approach to wildfire response.

There are two routes to doing this. One is kind of a voluntary effort through the Xerces Society, but the other is for us to have a regulation that says you can label these plants pollinators safe if they have been raised in this manner.