I have found in some agencies... an unwillingness to speak the language of the tribes.

Thank you.

I have been asked to be the liaison to you to ask whether or not the Department would consider a more reasonable reporting time frame for tribes like we have done under the American Rescue Plan.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

If you have greater resources, it would seem to me reasonable that this would certainly free that up. Would you not agree?

If we can resolve some of these things quickly to allow for these applications to be submitted, and again, to take advantage of this, that is where we are going to make a difference.

Thank you for the time.

We should be working together to try to figure out how we can solve some of these problems...

There shouldn't be any ambiguity to it. To us, that is legislative intent, and it is specified, so it should be easy.

I know that Senator Shaheen spoke with you about H2Bs.

But we also have things like batteries out there, things that we really don't want to have sitting out there.

So when they hear me coming to them and saying, we have tribal energy programs, we have a way to help you, believe me, they are interested.