Lisa Murkowski

We have a responsibility to support the health and well-being of Native communities.

We are looking with great, great interest to the small modular reactor, the advanced reactor concepts.

When you have that kind of financial stress on our servicemembers, that is not right to them.

When you have that kind of financial stress on our servicemembers, that is not right to them.

We have included in our Arctic Warrior Act Provisions two authorizing provisions for troops stationed there in Alaska

Our Focus really has been on Fort Wainwright, along with Eielson Air Force Base, both of these were identified for site visits in Secretary Austin's Independent Committee to review the suicide prevention reports.

I absolutely believe that it is important that we have unions.

I think by making the BIA be more transparent with tribes, homebuyers and lenders about where they are in the process will be a help as well, as transparency always increases accountability.

We need to be paying attention to that.

I join you in thanks and appreciation.

Certainly things like being able to submit compliance reports by utilizing mail rather than online, which we know in far too many of our Alaska Native communities, and in so many parts of Indian Country, broadband is still not where we…

Today's hearing will help us to chart a path forward for the 118th, build on our work, and make sure the Federal Government does everything it can to uphold its trust and treaty responsibilities to Native communities.

We are looking for lessons learned. We are looking for an identification of those continuing barriers that prohibit tribes or organizations to move forward.

I think we need to have a category of stories where you can submit to the Committee the 'you have to be kidding me' stories.

You noted the priority for making consortium applications eligible. I think you have hit on something that is really key to us in recognizing that AFN and other tribal consortia make use of economies of scale to ensure that some of the…

I think this was a good overview of these areas that are so important, everything from education to economy to what is happening with agriculture.

As the strongest voice for Native priorities in Congress, this Committee has a responsibility to engage with and represent your interests.

The Federal Government should, absent some very serious concerns, allow that tribe to receive that benefit in the manner that it sees fit.

We want to acknowledge and thank you for reintroducing legislation last month to amend the Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience Act.

I always say, nothing about me without me.

When you have that kind of financial stress on our servicemembers, that is not right to them.

We have included in our Arctic Warrior Act Provisions two authorizing provisions for troops stationed there in Alaska, one is for cold-weather duty pay, the other one is a requirement that servicemembers in Alaska be reimbursed for the…

This is something that we have been very keenly focused on in Alaska

Creating a Health Care Workforce Innovation Fund within HRSA, and providing incentives to Community Health Centers to further enhance and establish additional formal agreements with training programs and educational institutions would…

We are requesting investments in health centers that total $30 billion in funding by the year 2030.