Dan Sullivan

I think it is really an issue of fairness and it looks like all the panelists would agree with that approach.

I appreciate your holding this hearing. I think it is a topic that is all too often overlooked.

The leaders from the North Slope Borough are in town right now, the elected leaders, tribal leaders, Alaska Native Corporation leaders. They tried to meet with Secretary Haaland seven times in a row since they have been here. Seven times…

What about communities with no water and sewer, none? No flush toilets, American citizens.

We need to get the Federal dollars to the places that don't have anything first.

The Federal funding and programs should be focused on the communities that don't have anything?

This is an issue that I think should unite Democrats and Republicans on getting our First Peoples the ability to have clean water.

That operation and maintenance issue is a giant issue we see in Alaska all the time.

I am a big fan of our Native American communities, Alaska Native communities.

No, it is not. It is not. Thank you.

Does the $4 billion cover that, or is that in addition?

Don't you think it should prioritize, just for fairness, call it racial justice, racial equity, just call it good old American fairness, the communities that don't have anything first?

What is more important, I have asked this many times, policy indicator of success more important than are the people you representing living longer?

They are trying to make my constituents live less longer.

This is environmental injustice for indigenous people in my State, and it happens every damned day with this Administration.

I think that is the most of any State in the country. It is all indigenous people.

The Biden administration has environmental justice and equity with a big asterisk, if you are an Alaska Native or indigenous person from Alaska, you don't get any environmental justice or equity.

It is like airports and other entities, too, all of a sudden they are seeing, like in my State a lot of these entities will go bankrupt, and they weren't the reason for it.

We're cutting defense spending and -- when it's a very dangerous world. Everybody agrees we -- should not be going below 3% of defense spending.

I give President Biden credit for keeping the unity of NATO, revitalizing NATO.

The biggest national security issue from my perspective, Chuck, is the Biden administration is continuing to put forward defense budget cuts during what everybody -- and the president agrees with this, so does the security of defense…

Do you think that a current EDA approach has enough of that local flavor, or is it getting too centralized in Washington?

So you think that is a reform that is recommended?

I don't even know what it is right now. What is the typical match?

We are looking at the reauthorization process now, which is a good opportunity, to instill the value of preserving locally driven economic development decisions.