Lisa Murkowski

We ask that the subcommittee find the funds necessary to maintain and expand this important initiative.

Thank you Chairwoman Murkowski, Senator Udall, and other honorable members of the subcommittee for the opportunity to submit written testimony.

It is the policy of this Nation, in fulfillment of its special trust responsibilities and legal obligations to Indians--to ensure the highest possible health status for Indians and urban Indians and to provide all resources necessary to…

We have requested less than this full amount, or only an additional $439,772.

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California encourages the subcommittee's support for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Subactivity: Soil, Water & Air Management.

We believe tribal communities have long been undercounted and inaccurately represented in Census data.

President Obama's commitment to establishing a legacy respecting the sacred relationship forged by our treaties is evident in the appropriations requests for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Your continued support, along with the strong commitment from the last four Florida Governors, has kept restoration on a strong and steady path.

We urge Congress to fund this request.

Dear Chairwoman Murkowski and Ranking Member Udall; We write to respectfully urge your support for funding the Department of Interior.

I sincerely hope you and your subcommittee will consider our request to provide funding of the ABPP Battlefield Land Acquisition Grants Program at its authorized level of $10 million.

Thank you Chairman Murkowski, Ranking Member Udall, and members of this subcommittee for the opportunity to relay our needs to you.

I thank Chairwoman Murkowski, Ranking Member Udall, and all members of the subcommittee for the opportunity to do so.

Thank you for your support of our Nation's rural fire departments and for the opportunity to offer these recommendations.

Thank you Chairwoman Murkowski and Ranking Member Udall for allowing me to submit written testimony.

We look to science to understand environmental challenges and to develop more intelligent, less burdensome solutions.

Our Tribe is very much on its own.

It's something that we are looking at and, again, trying to figure out if there is a way that we can make this work.

Are the National Guard entrance standards so high as to exclude a significant population that may deserve that second chance?

I will just conclude by noting that when the President came to Alaska in late August, early September, and sat down with a group of Native leaders, one of the more interesting questions to him was whether or not we could do more to kind of…

I do not understand why.

I need to know that we are all in agreement as to where there is.

We need to ditch Choice, we need to go back to what we had built where VA have identified community providers.

We do not want to participate in a national consolidated program. Those are all the buzzwords that just do not work for us.

It scares me to death.