I think we have made upholding the Federal Government's trust responsibility a bipartisan priority, and it needs to continue to be so.
As you well know we have a public safety issue in the State of Alaska, some have described it as a crisis.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I appreciate that. But our situation here is, at the end of 2022, the unobligated balance for IHS was $6 billion.
It has been observed on roughly 193,500 acres statewide, more than 98 percent of those acres mapped in 2021.
I have long said that I do not believe that we have to choose between a healthy forest and a healthy economy.
This is an environmental injustice that we have discussed, it is an environmental injustice caused by the Federal Govern...
We don't have the luxury of time.
Madam Secretary, let's begin with the first part of my opening statement, which was reference to the people of King Cove...
But I do want to impress upon you that right now the community leaders, the mayors of the Borough of the Kenai Peninsula...
This obviously represents the exact wrong direction for Alaska, certainly the wrong direction for a country.