We are not getting mad at you as an individual. There is anger. There is frustration, and rightly so, because as a government, as an agency, we are failing these people.

What would happen is Contract Support Costs would be short-changed, short-funded, and years of litigation, lots of money spent on good lawyers to argue that case.

I think what's important with respect to this issue is the lack of clarity that the previous rule, the 2015 rule, created.

The discussion about the State fire assistance, that is also an area that I would certainly have concerns with.

You're going to hear a lot of questions I think this morning about prioritization and the fact that a budget that comes out is effectively a prioritization of what is important.

I do not know if you have heard about Karluk Lake. This is a beautiful lake on Kodiak, in the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge area.

As I told the Chief of the Forest Service 2 weeks ago, this is an issue that we must work on together.

This was the first time that we had been successful in including money in the program since 2008.

I would love to introduce you to some of our Tribal court judges.

I think a new administration and folks that are working earnestly to address this will hopefully allow us to finally resolve the problem of fire borrowing.

I think we all want to see what this infrastructure package will yield, but on the same hand, you do not want our departments to basically be viewing that as this will be the fund and the source for ongoing maintenance and operations of…

I think the sooner we get people in place and brought up to speed on many of these areas, where, again, I look at them as parochial, but for our fishermen, for our miners, for the people that live in these remote areas and are raising…

I have been consistently neutral on potential development in the area, but I've supported the idea that the Pebble Limited Partnership should be allowed to apply for a Clean Water permit from the Corps before the EPA preemptively acts to…

What I've learned around here is that 'imminent' is a very vague term.

It is my assumption that the three that I am highlighting here--Rosebud, Pine Ridge, and Winnebago--are just the ones that make the 'Wall Street Journal'.

I come from a State where we talk about the fact that we see our climate that has changed...

What are you doing to improve that sales planning and to solve the appraisal issues that we are dealing with?

So that will be published----

When I look at the budgets not only within Interior, but the other subcommittees, I am always looking to see where have we, as an Arctic nation, placed the priority, the funding priority, in our budgets.

I particularly appreciate the imperative that you seem to be bringing to the Agency that delays in decisionmaking that go on for years do not benefit anyone.

I just have to say wow. After listening to that, I would think that we do not have a problem within the IHS system.

the situation is absolutely unacceptable, intolerable, and we need to have a clear and specific plan as to how to address it.

Let us separate it from the funding needs. But do you think that it is reasonable that Indian Tribes and Tribal organizations should essentially be required to donate the use of their space to operate healthcare programs that are a Federal…

I strongly support such as the opening of the 1002 area in ANWR for energy development.

If it is not a new project and you recognize it as something that has been committed to, how can we prioritize this so that we complete this land acquisition as was laid out over 2 years ago now?