Don Young

This Administration has decided to create a new, vague, regulatory bureaucracy through an Executive Order.

Taking money from existing research and management to fund some poorly designed national initiative that will hinder economic growth of Alaska is just wrong.

The National Ocean Policy is a bad idea. It will create more uncertainty for businesses and will limit job growth.

The Executive Order creates a new National Ocean Policy and a complicated bureaucratic scheme.

For those from Alaska, please, thank you, Mr. Chairman and the ranking member for inviting such a diverse group of Alaskans whose work for organizations has tremendous impacts on the lives of the Alaskan native people.

I cannot figure it out. My Senator said it was only 4,000 miles. I cannot figure out how that happened, but that is the Senate for you.

I really don't like your organization to begin with, so let's make that perfectly clear, because I do believe you overreach.

Where do you get your money to run your operation?

We had some very tough language dealing with the issue that you are talking about in Pakistan.

Don't threaten us with a lawsuit. You can have your lawyers make a lot of money out of this.

Marge, I will never forget the time you put that eagle in my arms and let me release the eagle.

I want to talk to all the tribal members here--in Alaska we have a 7(I) provision.

All due respect, sir, the Congress is the only solution. That is our trust with all Native tribes.

We do write the law. And don't ever forget that.

But I do appreciate your efforts, and I appreciate our obligation to try to work with you, but also recognizing that we can't diminish your sovereignty, too.

I plan on moving this bill, because it is time.

Now, if there is a working way they can get together and say, 'Maybe we can come up with some kind of an agreement,' I would be more willing to look at it.

But to get everybody to agree all the time is very nearly impossible.

That is one of the better testimonies I have had from the BIA, so thank you. I appreciate it. Very well done.

This bill does not concern any new or pending Indian claim, it does not cost any taxpayer money.

H.R. 1272 resolves an issue that has been pending in some form since 1948.

H.R. 1272, the 'Minnesota Chippewa Tribe Judgment Fund Distribution Act of 2011,' authorizes the distribution of funds that belong to the six bands of Indian tribes that make up the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe.

We have had a good safety record. We have had one bad fire in Alaska over the last 35 years...

There is nothing wrong with the ship. This was a good ship. There are probably three errors and they are all human errors.

I appreciate it and I notice how quick people forget.