Mark Begich: “If I can interrupt, car loans, credit cards, student loans, any type of credit you want to get to grow your business…”

It has been an honor to be here.

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

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?