"I have introduced S. 4365 because Alaska Native children experience the highest incidences of hospitalization from dog attacks than any other group in the Nation, and we need to deal with it."
"So you are doing that. What is your funding source for that public education then?"
"So that is why, this is the question. Is that why, then, IHS had previously denied the request by both, well, there were two tribal health organizations in Alaska, at YKHC and Maniilaq, when they soug..."
"Statement of Senator Murkowski"
"This is a commonsense piece of legislation that ensures the Federal Government lives up to its trust obligations while providing a humane, non-lethal option for animal population control."
"So we can talk about the funding aspect of it, but you have also raised another question, another concern in recognizing that we don't have rabies testing that is out in these areas."
"Okay. So this bill will fix that legal authority, is that correct?"
"But if in fact you have costs that could average, as I understand, around $20,000 per person plus lost wages plus travel costs if folks have to fly, then that is also a balancing factor if that indivi..."
"Thank you. Mr. Chairman, I am out of time."
"Years of work focused on what limited access to education, economic opportunities, health care resources, higher rates of poverty--what that means for so many of our indigenous peoples and the childre..."
"I think we recognize that when it comes to families and their ability to go to work, if there is not affordable childcare or if there is no childcare whatsoever, it makes it pretty darn hard."