Mark Begich: “Is there any consideration that you are going to take or any----”

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

Just assuming the private sector is going to absorb all this is not realistic.

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?