"To create jobs and make investments in areas where those investments are desperately needed."
"We have the resources, whether they be geothermal, wind or ocean energy or energy from the river, biomass, we have it all."
"I am truly hopeful that we can once again act in a bipartisan manner and work to include funding to address the urgent needs of Indian Country in this proposed stimulus package."
"Nowhere in this Country is the need for infrastructure greater than on Indian reservations."
"Forty-nine percent unemployment nationally on Indian reservations."
"the recovery package contain the NCAI-recommended 'Access to Capital' provisions"
"I think when you have good leadership and a sense of pragmatism, we can make good things happen."
"But it really is very, very tragic that Alaska Native villages have to depend on Venezuela for their safety net."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman."
"I also think that within the Department of Energy, one of the challenges that we face is how we educate the rest of the country on what it is that we need to be doing."
"I have spoken with some of our naval leaders, and they consider themselves to be somewhat disadvantaged by our not having become a party to the Law of the Seas."