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.

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

I do thank the gentleman for yielding. S. 1710, this legislation, as has been mentioned by both speakers, will name the Federal courthouse in Anchorage after the late Judge James Martin Fitzgerald. James Fitzgerald served Alaska from 1959…

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I appreciate it and I notice how quick people forget.

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 have been in this business 40 years, and I have heard the same story, 'We are going to do better next time.'

We strongly support the Native American Energy Act, and our focus is actually on Section 11 of that, and it will very clearly help us reduce the Federal interference and the duplication and oversight of Federal agencies from the Navajo…

the question about this initiative should not be 'why' but instead, 'how quickly can we set this in motion'?

The tribe supports H.R. 3973, and we believe the bill is a good start and can be expanded to provide more support for tribal energy development.

I say this without any hesitation.