Mark Begich: “We would love to have you up there. It's a very unique situation, but also there are some, what I would call some…”

It has been an honor to be here.

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

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?