the fish don't really care what we're doing back here in Washington and what our timeline is

Naghe nduninyu, in the Koyukon Athabaskan language, this means welcome, or even better, precious you came.

Well, we'll work with you on that.

We do not intend to compromise the funding of those cutters.

Historically, pandemics have been very hard on our Native peoples.

The thing that is slowing us down is the regulator, who has not caught up to the fact that this is not, you know, 'your father's Oldsmobile' in the sense of what we have been building in this country in terms of nuclear facilities for so…

For us as a nation to actually be going the wrong way with maternal mortality is just something that in my mind is almost unforgivable, inexcusable.

It is time, it has been time to make a significant investment to just eliminate this problem once and for all.

Thirty-two of the 190 rural Alaska communities are still unserved.

Investing in water infrastructure is investing in the future of our Native peoples.

I would love to visit with you and other members of the Committee about a field trip in Alaska

what happens when it gets cold, that is what I outlined in that article from the Anchorage Daily News

It is clear that the need is out there across Indian Country, certainly in our State, as Valerie Davidson has outlined.

I look forward to hearing about what Congress should consider in a potential infrastructure bill.

I appreciate that you, Ranking Member Murkowski, and former Chairman Tom Udall, provided funding for this program in the Appropriations Committee.

This is not an issue of addressing outdated or inadequate infrastructure, it is the lack of any infrastructure whatsoever.

People say that they are tired of being afraid of our water.

Roughly 20 percent of rural Alaska Native homes still lack in-home pipe water.

These are the conditions that people in some of the parts of my State are dealing with when it comes to access to basic drinking water.

we really need a significant Federal investment of funding to be able to fully fund these services

How can we know whether or not, when you have reformatted the device for the inhaler, that somehow or another increases the efficacy?

Do we have any way to determine whether these price hikes are justified?

I would hope that we'd be able to advance provisions like what Senator Baldwin and I are trying to do.

Thank you for this very important hearing.

The vaccine guidance and the vaccines shots in arms has given us a kind of ray of hope here.