This is something that isn't setting well with the people in the State of Alaska, and it clearly doesn't set well with me.
You are Alaska's landlord, effectively.
That's not acceptable.
The trust responsibility that the Federal Government owes to our first peoples is very important to me.
It's good to have you before the subcommittee. This will be, of course, the first of many opportunities to sit down and ...
What assurances can you give me that we're going to see some forward motion in this in a positive way?
this proposal, in my view, is dead on arrival. It's just not going to happen.
I also want to acknowledge the good work of Deputy Secretary David Hayes, and I share the chairman's appreciation for th...
the notion that the State must pay for the final lands entitled to it under the statehood act is equally wrongheaded.
I must tell you that there are two proposals in this request that are, frankly, an insult to the people of Alaska.
It's been very helpful.