05/06/2009
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"I want to again thank Senator Schatz for holding this important hearing and working with me on this issue."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for convening today's very, very important and as you have noted, historic hearing."
"It is a complicated history of injustice and of sorrow, for both Indian tribes and African Americans."
"We have a responsibility to uphold the agreements made with our tribes."