I think just about every Native group, every tribe that comes to visit me here in Washington has raised and expressed their concerns about the IRR program at the BIA.
Any cuts in the Federal assistance will severely affect them.
I would like to continue to work with you on this.
I got them to do a one stop shop on the reservation with the four agencies and streamline the approval process.
You have a 49 step process in order for somebody to get a drilling permit.
We have a 13,000 unit backlog for homes. And we need to weatherize an additional 27,000 homes.
I find it so troubling to know that are kind of robbing Peter to pay Paul, for instance, taking money from the block gra...
I would like to see doubling of all our Indian education budgets that we have.
It would be nice to have someone from the Administration... speaking to this issue, because I think it is so important t...
I support the Administration's efforts for land conservation and its commitment to growing the Forest Legacy program.
For those of us around the subcommittee here, we certainly appreciate it. But on behalf of the people of Alaska, I since...