Everyone needs to be heard, and the effort to not just go to Anchorage and Fairbanks and Washington, DC to gain these important comments from the public is appreciated.

That is unfortunate, because we need them all.

We think that is a very important part of the prospective lease sales going forward.

Thank you for your leadership. Obviously, significant issues, and we want to make sure that the expectations that we have for you and your team to do your job as it relates to our public lands, their treasures and their economic…

If you think that we are not on track with this transfer and the purchase, if your folks can let us know, that would be greatly appreciated.

I certainly hope that the Department is making an effort to do right by Palau.

We are just engaging in cyclical maintenance by gravel backfill on an annual basis.

I am concerned by many of the proposed reductions to the BIA.

Just knowing that it is on your radar as well is very important.

We have high expectations for the Assistant Secretary.

I want to encourage those within BOEM to utilize the research partnerships that we have in place.

It troubles me that such delays could harm our ability to safeguard natural areas threatened by development or see them auctioned off to the highest bidder or special interest.

I appreciate your focus to it.

In the most seismically active place in North America, we appreciate that.

I am not going to be in a position to support any kind of a national aquaculture effort that does not take States' rights into account.

I take it neither Denise nor Olivia are going to make a comment?

I support a plan that balances greater access while maintaining protections in areas where development may not be appropriate at this time.

It is a concern to the Department of Defense, certainly, it is to me, as a concern it should be to our Nation, that we make sure we honor our treaty obligations and treat our territories with dignity, respect, and support.

I think it goes to the challenge, the charge that you heard from both Senators Tester and Heitkamp.

I want to extend my congratulations and of course my full support to Tara Sweeney for the position for which she has been nominated as Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs at the Department of Interior.

I support Tara Sweeney's nomination wholeheartedly.

I'd like to ask you--and I want to thank you, Mr. Reeves, for the comment that you have just provided about the focus on women in the military and women in the VA now, the numbers that we are seeing who are coming into a system that really…

I am such an unabashed proponent of the fact this will be the first Alaska Native woman nominated to this position.

I would encourage the VA to begin that conversation now and to demonstrate the kind of flexibility.

Well, know that you will find me aggressively pushing on this to make sure that we do have that broader view.