I understand the commitment from the Secretary to say we want to prioritize our Alaska Native Veteran allottees.

We need, again, very, very tight timelines that we are dealing with, with all of these.

We are concerned about any potential for gap because what they do and what they provide is extraordinary unique.

I appreciate your eyes on that and the fact that your background allows you to be intimately familiar with their mission.

I think that's an interesting approach, recognizing that oftentimes these factors are community-based, regionally-based.

It is absolutely imperative that we not miss this deadline.

I am committed to meeting those time goals, the interim ones and the final time goal.

we are at a much better place at this moment in time for the people of the State of Alaska, who have been anxious. We have all been anxious throughout this time of COVID, but we have been particularly anxious as we have watched our tourist…

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We want to take good care of it, but we also do not want to be in a situation where our ability to live, to work, to raise our families is denied because we have no economic opportunity.

It sometimes stuns me to think about the resources that we have as a nation--our opportunities to not only provide for an economy and jobs, but resources that our nation needs and our friends and allies want and yet, sometimes, we put in…

I think it would be helpful to try to understand how the Administration is defining conservation, and in terms of engagement, I would urge you to be more engaged, more open.

My fishermen now are a little bit worried about what this 30 by 30 proposal might be.

Yes, when I think about energy security, to me, it really is all-of-the-above.

Russia is providing more oil to the United States than Alaska is currently.

So as one who, again with Senator Daines, we want people to stay focused on the science and on the data.

I had some concerns about the mandatory funding for LWCF, including how we pay for it.

Well, in fairness, we are not doing much up on the North Slope when it comes to our offshore and I hope that you know that.

I was one of those members of Congress who supported that plan.

Sometimes it is the Federal Government and our regulations that hold us back from achieving what it is that has been built and worked so hard to facilitate over the years.

I think you have outlined in a very clearly articulated way how, with the promise of ANCSA we really have seen an economic and cultural empowerment.

I think there is a good sense of hope for the future of tourism in our Native communities.

I think you have outlined very well how those benefits that come through the ANC then are spread out.