I would love that soon.

But I want to make sure that, one way or another, it may be a very short letter, it may be a very long letter, but there will be a response to the correspondence they sent in to you the beginning of January regarding the EIS.

the community has been consistent in only wanting to assess one alternative, which is a road.

It would be so good to have more predictable and stable funding levels.

Let's stop the hearing and you continue to approve a few more.

I am a lead sponsor on the advance appropriations bill for Indian Health Services.

Thank you both for being here today and thanks for the work that you do for Indian Country and Alaska Native communities throughout my State.

Do you think you would be able to give to the Committee, with the numbers remaining in the process, what that schedule would look like timewise?

Thank you very much for everything you guys are doing.

I just want to give you credit on that, because these are monies owed.

The community has been consistent in only wanting to assess one alternative, which is a road.

Yes, I mean, you are making my argument. So give me those numbers and especially if nationally it is 15 percent and in our region it is 30 percent, then we are not being treated fairly.

I think it is a very fair question, and it is a very fast growth we had about 4,000 of these train cars moving, but now we are up to 400,000 train cars for oil shipment.

No one likes to think like this, but it did not have to be a derailment. That could be an act of terrorism.

It is excellent care; the South-Central Foundation, which is the organization that runs the healthcare system there and is, by Don Berwick's estimate, the best healthcare system in the United States.

I ran a pretty large size city, mayor of Anchorage, almost at that time 270,000 people.

Federal grants are very important.

I am glad Alaska could be a model and really just cannot say enough about your team reaching out and doing that.

last year's government shutdown almost cut off earned benefit payments to millions of veterans, including students, disabled and survivors.

We are committed to providing a high level of access to both primary and specialty care in remote areas.

Good afternoon and welcome to the Subcommittee on Emergency Management, Intergovernmental Relations, and the District of Columbia.

The last question I have, and I want to thank the chief for being here.

I think we have already capped out, or done, over $2 million in reimbursements.

the access to healthcare has greatly increased, and they get better choice now.

Yes, they have gone up, fairly expensive.