Mark Begich: “This is our effort to move the Senate into the 21st Century as we do this testimony.”

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

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?

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

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