Mark Begich: “I want to go back to one other part you brought up and that is the workforce.”

It has been an honor to be here.

Fewer than 20 Alaska native Vietnam-era veterans have received their conveyances. A big part of the reason why so few of the more than 2,000 eligible Vietnam-era veterans or their heirs have received those lands is because they were…

if we pass laws like this, the Choice Act, and we put funding in it, we also have to have sustainable funding.

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on December 9, 2014, at 10 a.m., to hold an International Operations and Organizations, Human Rights, Democracy, and…