It's your VA, too, and so how we can make sure that they feel supported and reached out to.

I don't think they are too plain and direct at all.

I think there is opportunity and promise, but we still are talking an awful lot about how we build the capacity.

I am not sure where the issue is in getting these resources directed out to the states.

I hear way too often that it is the siloed world that we are all operating in, and that just further complicates it.

This is something that I raise every year before the committee, that and village-built clinics.

I can say with real certainty that was not the case.

I think it is fair to say that it has been a big year for the Agency since you testified before us last June.

Now that the infrastructure law has provided full funding for all of the sanitation projects within the IHS sanitation deficiency system database, would IHS be supportive of using part of its annual sanitation facilities construction…

I share the Chairman's desire, and concern, and knowing what we can anticipate with regards to the guidance.

Our national security interests require that we increase our domestic supply of these resources, including from our offshore areas.

So there's some buzz out there that this may be a situation where Cook Inlet was just one example.

I have always prioritized funding for EPA programs that really do focus on getting tangible results in providing cleaner air, cleaner water, and support for our lands across the country.

As one of the negotiators for that Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, I am very proud of what we were able to include with over $60 billion in needed investments to our aging infrastructure through EPA programs.

If it goes in the direction that this leaked copy has indicated, I will just tell you that it rocks my confidence in the court right now.

I am thankful that you have stressed the importance of supporting Arctic operations, the training, and equipment for our Joint Forces in this important region.

We are in a unique position, as you know, in Alaska providing the only location supporting both short- and long-range hypersonic weapons testing.

Obviously the Javelins have the ability to significantly help Ukrainian forces, but what we are hearing is that the new Ukrainian troops are not provided adequate training to operate these $200,000 weapons systems.

What we're really trying to do here, is to be able to provide a level of justice in areas in my State, where they simply have none.

I want to make sure that we're not in a situation where we're looking again, realizing we're not measuring up here.

More research is needed to better understand the regional differences in suicide mortality across the United States.

Service members who need behavioral health support should have access to timely treatment--ideally within two weeks, not 2 months.

I am pleased that the Department responded by swiftly providing that briefing--during which DoD officials referred to a report expected this month containing the first analysis of firefighter blood samples from last year.

In December, Senator Murkowski and I led a letter with twenty of our colleagues to Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness Skelly regarding this issue and requesting a briefing.

Senator Sullivan and I are here this afternoon on the Senate floor, and we are here with heavy hearts. We are joined in the Galleries by friends of Alaska because, last Friday, our Congressman, Congressman Don Young--the Congressman for…