Mark Begich: “I think we had a similar conversation about this, and I guess I would like you to expand, if you could, on what efforts…”

That is actually an old model. That is a model that we are trying to get rid of.

I want to make sure my colleagues hear exactly what you are saying, so a couple years from now, we do not hear complaints that, geez, why did you not do it?

All we want to do is fix it for Alaska Native people. That is all.

We have a responsibility to protect the most vulnerable among us.