"I think it is really an issue of fairness and it looks like all the panelists would agree with that approach."
"the Federal funding and programs should be focused on the communities that don't have anything?"
"That operation and maintenance issue is a giant issue we see in Alaska all the time."
"Does the $4 billion cover that, or is that in addition?"
"This is an issue that I think should unite Democrats and Republicans on getting our First Peoples the ability to have clean water."
"No, it is not. It is not. Thank you."
"I am a big fan of our Native American communities, Alaska Native communities."
"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."
"I think that is the most of any State in the country. It is all indigenous people."
"This is environmental injustice for indigenous people in my State, and it happens every damned day with this Administration."