Lisa Murkowski actually said...

"What is needed is federal legislation which recognizes the authority of our tribal governments to deal in the first instance with issues of local domestic violence, sexual assault, and substance abuse..."

"this works."

"Thank you, Natasha, I appreciate it a great deal and know that I too, am really irritated at BIA, DOJ for thus far ignoring us on that letter, so we're going to get some action there."

"We are failing our Native people with a system that is just not working right now."