Native tourism touches on so many extraordinary aspects of Indian Country and Alaska Native communities.

Fortunately, Congress has legislation to address this gap in coverage with a bipartisan bill entitled, the Nutrition Counseling Aiding Recovery for Eating Disorders Act.

I think it is extraordinarily significant.

It's critical that we continue to support our tribal economies as we move forward.

This is something that we need to address, we must address, and we will address it.

So let me ask, then, because you noted that CDC focuses absolutely on health and safety as is their mission.

Do you see, either through EDA, or the BIA grants that Mr. Rodman is speaking to, that these could be helpful within Native tourism?

I think we recognize that we have seen an unprecedented amount of Federal funding that has been directed to provide assistance for our tribes, for our Native people.

I just, at 11:30, got new information that the CDC's last traunch of guidance still requires additional guidance to be published.

The State of Alaska did a survey that was released on Thursday that indicated that people are not looking to you all for guidance.

We are all tired with COVID. We are done with COVID. But, as many have said, COVID is not yet done with us.

Well, it was news to me to, again, just see that there is yet another thing that has come up just this morning, so I would ask you to take a look at that.

One point three million tourists come to the State of Alaska on a cruise ship.

Should I just tell folks back home do not even bother ramping up your seasonal operations because it is just not coming, we cannot get that guidance from the CDC?

We have a lot more work to be doing with regards to that.

we talked a lot about the pandemic and all that it has brought. I would like to take just a few moments here, at the outset, before I ask for full consideration, to share with colleagues, very briefly, what we have faced in the State of…

to just wrap up this discussion, I really appreciate the comments from my colleague Senator Sullivan because I think you have really keyed in on where we are today. The Alaska Tourism Restoration Act is such a narrowly defined in scope…

as in legislative session, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation be discharged from further consideration of S. 593 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration. I ask unanimous…

We need you to be working with us on these PLOs, the withdrawal that, again, I think, was not only extraordinarily unfortunate and short-sighted when that decision was made just a couple months ago.

I would ask you that question as well, what possible support might be had for those institutions that are experiencing extraordinarily high costs for lousy internet.

I lean very strongly towards opening all schools in the fall.

Yes. If you can let us know just, kind of, what to anticipate there, that would be appreciated.

So how challenging is it, or will it be to recoup more third-party reimbursements?

I think we saw during this public health emergency, that IHS facilities were called upon to provide care to non-IHS beneficiaries. So we are all in this together as we said.

In the fiscal year 2021 Omnibus we all agreed to separate out the 105(l) costs.