I will go to Ambassador O'Keefe. I don't want you to feel left out here this afternoon.

We do need to be conscientious about our budgets.

I would like to ask you about the new media.

we included some language in that that encouraged the Open World Leadership Center to expand its effort to raise private funding in order to reduce requirements for appropriations.

Well, and I think we recognize whether it is Alaska Natives or we see with our American Indians, when we can incorporate the native culture into the education, I think we are seeing a resurgence in interest in what is going on in the…

I am a big proponent of language in the schools, immersion languages in the schools.

Got to have some flexibility there somewhere.

I would like to welcome both nominees for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

I just want to thank you for that and just urge you, as a commissioner, and Ms. LaFleur...

I want to thank you for your very open-door policy, the conversations that you have had...

It is a critical study, and I greatly anticipate it.

I do think it would be useful, as you asked, to have Congress give FERC some guidance on this issue.

I wish to speak about a resolution designating April 23 through 25, 2010, as ``Global Youth Service Days.'' S. Res. 493 recognizes and commends the significant community service efforts that youth are making in communities across the…

I would appreciate that, and if we can give you more specifics to which to respond, we will do so.

I'd like to thank Chairman Harkin and Senators Murkowski, Brown, Casey, and Bennet for their leadership on efforts to improve the nutritional content of school meals provided by the Federal school lunch program.

Obviously, the cost of energy is a key issue up there, but even more so, the opportunity to provide the Air Force with a fuel source that could be ready and affordable is something that we all want to focus on.

I was just visited yesterday in my office by some in the Alaska construction trades that are concerned that some of the contractors that utilize construction workers on Alaska Army bases may be engaging in this process of misclassification.

We must work together to promote energy development that respects tribal sovereignty.

I think it is difficult for people who have not been out to some of our villages, been out to rural Alaska and had an opportunity to appreciate the difficulties that are faced with just the day to day living and the expenses that are…

In just a few weeks here, the Elmendorf Air Force Base is slated to receive the Commander-in-Chief Award from the Secretary of Defense.

the opportunity for the Air Force, the Army, now the Navy to conduct synchronized training free from encroachments is a real asset.

We look forward to recognizing their accomplishments because they are significant.

You are the village store. You have to think about what your community is going to need because you have one barge.

Well, we continue at the State level to try to do what we can to further open up training ranges.

It has been an issue that has generated some controversy and a great deal of discussion.