Mark Begich: “I don't think you have support, bipartisan, for this effort, Mr. Chairman.”

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

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?

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