"I just use this time to make sure you are aware of it and to ask for your commitment to work with us to ensure that we do have continued funding for these programs."
"What Congress had authorized was the Alaska Native Educational Equity Act, and this act provides funding for programs like the remedial and gifted education."
"The gaps are wide, and they are unacceptable, and we are working aggressively to deal with it."
"I appreciate the opportunity to work with you on the childhood nutrition and your comments about just the physical health of our children."
"Our education statistics are not anything to be proud of as they relate to our Alaska Natives in terms of achievement, dropout rates, college enrollment."
"We believe, are making a difference. They are still very, very necessary to ensure that Alaska Native children have educational equity with their nonNative peers across the country."
"We can't have a gap in any part of this educational system where it is kind of OK for you to slough."
"I think we recognize that it is not just some decision in senior year of high school that a young man or woman decides, 'I am done with this. I am out of here.'"
"I think we also both agree... that energy security should be our key issue here."
"I commend you for agreeing to undertake the challenge."
"I strongly support his nomination, as I have said."