We need to fund renewables and to transition our workforce up to then to work in that field.

Senator Murkowski has been a vocal advocate of cleaning up NPRA from damages inflicted by the Federal Government over the last 60 plus years and it's finally happening.

Tens of millions of acres of our lands and waters have been unilaterally withdrawn in recent years, against our strongest objections, and in my view, oftentimes in violation of the law.

This is where the world is headed, and Alaska is extremely well-positioned to lead it with abundant renewable resources.

The Federal Government has made commercial production all but impossible in the offshore Arctic.

At the same time federal agencies have generally become less cooperative, less willing to work with us to get to 'yes,' and instead start and stay at 'no.'

Really our hardest task is not in finding the resources or developing the know-how or recruiting the manpower needed to responsibly produce them.

I would like to urge you, Senator Murkowski, to vote against the Trans Pacific Partnership which would shift many of our jobs overseas, drive down wages and impede our government's ability to enact policies needed to sustainably develop…

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

Our Tribe is very much on its own.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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…

It is important to understand that our communities are currently facing a massive increase in wildfires, riverbank erosions, spring flooding...

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

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

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

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

We urge Congress to fund this request.

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

We look forward to working with Congress in 2016 to accomplish this goal and appreciate your consideration of our requests.

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.