Lisa Murkowski

I would appreciate a commitment to working with NINDS to develop and sponsor programs to measure ALS progression using alternative methods.

I have got a personal connection. I think so many of us do have a personal connection and we recognize just really the horrific progression of that.

If confirmed as NIH Director, I will work closely with you and with IC Directors to implement approaches that enable us to fund as many scientists as we can.

Newer technologies will bring us closer much faster.

If we could finish a project in three years, we would be happy. It just doesn't happen when your building season is really like three months long.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

We can either fund another study or we can make an investment to protect our babies and to keep them in communities, our communities, where we belong.

I have been a co-sponsor of Senator Bennet's resolution that clarifies and affirms that the United States' trust responsibility is to ensure water access.

Alaskans living in communities without access to running water are five times more likely to be hospitalized for lower respiratory tract infections.

It should shock us as Alaskans. It should shock us as Americans that basic, basic matters like safe water, drinking water, basic sanitation needs are still so unmet in so many places.

We are seeing some improvement, we are starting to see some gains, connecting homes to sewer and water treatment systems in villages like Akiachak and Stebbins.

According to the IHS, one in ten Native Americans lacks access to clean water or indoor plumbing.

In Alaska, roughly 20 percent of Native homes don't have an adequate supply of clean water or a connection to a sewer system.

But I don't want to be in a position where we have finally answered people's prayers by saying, you are going to get all this Federal money, there is a lot in the pipeline, but then we just can't stuff it into the limited capacity pie that…

I know that certainly factors into everything that we are trying to do in Alaska, because of course, everything needs to be flown up, it is either flown up or barged in the case of Alaska or Hawaii.

If we could finish a project in three years, we would be happy. It just doesn't happen when your building season is really like three months long.

Yes, we have been learning a lot, I think just like anybody else who is doing any construction these days, that prices have changed, we are confronting supply challenges just to complete anything or with workforce.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

We would encourage you to look at that. Again, I don't think anybody feels like we need to have another study to know that we have a very extensive list when it comes to O&M needs.

We can either fund another study or we can make an investment to protect our babies and to keep them in communities, our communities, where we belong.

IHS requested $10 million to conduct a nationwide analysis to determine the cost funding for O&M for tribes.

I want to shift to the issue that you raised, Ms. Davidson.

I have been a co-sponsor of Senator Bennet's resolution that clarifies and affirms that the United States' trust responsibility is to ensure water access.

Alaskans living in communities without access to running water are five times more likely to be hospitalized for lower respiratory tract infections.

We are seeing some improvement, we are starting to see some gains, connecting homes to sewer and water treatment systems in villages like Akiachak and Stebbins.