As we all know, the daunting cost of a college education can be something that for many children, and most particularly minorities and our Native American kids and our Alaska Native kids, college was just not something that they could even…

Just very briefly, Senator Heitkamp and I are working to advance the proposition of the Native Children's Commission focused on those factors that are holding back our Native American and Alaska Native children.

I would think that in light of the just devastating statistics that we have with our Native American students that this would be an area where the Department, through their regulations, could work administratively to perhaps make sure that…

It is important, as we are talking about barriers to success with Native American children, Alaska native children...

I requested an additional $250 million in the appropriations request that I had advanced for additional GMD upgrades.

I have been encouraged by what we're seeing coming out of the development of the Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR).

I was somewhat troubled to see that on the House side they have struck out your fiscal year 2015 request for the LRDR planning.

But it seems to me you are going to be in a situation again where you are encouraging the dual enrollment...

I think it would be interesting to know what we are looking at, at numbers.

I come this afternoon to speak about the regulations proposed by the administration on Monday relating to the Environmental Protection Agency. This time the agency's target is a 30-percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. EPA Regulations

I ask unanimous consent that privileges of the floor be granted to Cathy Cahill for the remainder of the 113th Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

the way we are learning how to deal with the complexities that doing business while protecting the environment--the way we are accomplishing this in the Klamath Basin is unique.

I rise today to introduce two separate bills to open a small portion of the Arctic coastal plain, in my home State of Alaska, to oil and gas development. I am introducing these bills because new production in northern Alaska is vital to my…

I have asked some very directed questions to Mr. Washburn about what land into trust for Alaska would mean, it would be a change in policy.

It really does beg the question as to whether or not Alaska tribes and Native organizations should welcome BIE back to the State of Alaska.

The Federal trust responsibility then has flowed through the Department of Education to Alaska's public schools.

I have come to the floor today to introduce a piece of legislation that I feel is timely and critically necessary, the Department of Defense Suicide Tracking Act of 2014. As our Nation winds down involvement in the longest war in our…

Investing in education is investing in the future of our tribes.

Mr. Chairman, I had an opportunity to go to, I was in Point Hope in April, a very small whaling community in the northwestern part of the State.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I believe both of the nominees today are highly qualified for the positions they have been nominated for.

Do you still think that the number of proceedings from which you would have to recuse yourself is 43 or thereabouts? Is that correct?

If confirmed you would work with the Ethics Counsel at FERC to determine how to proceed.

This is something that I would like us to have an opportunity to get into further.