Today, I am thrilled that we are discussing how to write a wrong that has lingered for over half a century.

I am grateful to Chairman Stauber and Representative Mary Sattler Peltola for introducing H.R. 6285.

My community unapologetically supports the leasing program.

This legislation would reverse this administration's sweeping September 6 announcements that restrict development on 13 million acres in NPR-A and reinstate resource development leases in the ANWR.

This means that we are being heard. We, of course, support your bill.

H.R. 6285 addresses both land rights and usage on the North Slope, both of which are essential to the self-determination of the Indigenous communities.

The Department needs to rescind its cancellation of the leases and allow exploration.

This is our right and it implements the intent of ANCSA! This is our destiny and our economic freedoms that were promised by Congress.

We will not become conservation refugees at the behest of the environmental corporations from the lower-48 states that are trying to 'protect us from ourselves.'

The issue and goal of this Administration seems to be to erase us from the landscape!

we are an 'inconvenient truth' because we are here, and we will not give up on our rights as Indigenous people.

We are good stewards of our lands and resources, and we have been for millennia.

I would love to hear from each of you on how we can do a better job, as Alaskans, making sure that industry, Native people, and environmental folks can collaborate and work together.

we support your bill. I am here to continue the legacy of our past leaders to fight for what is rightfully ours--these are our homelands.

This dereliction of duty and disregard for the rule of law cannot continue.

The Federal Government should not prioritize the media over the voices of Alaska Native communities who will be directly affected by its policies.

We do not approve of these efforts to turn our homeland into one giant national park, which literally guarantees us a fate with no economy, no jobs, reduced subsistence, and no hope for the future of our people.

Thank you, Chairman Stauber and Representative Peltola for your continued support and advocacy on behalf the North Slope Inupiat.

we are treated as colonists on our own lands and are subject to federal approvals for almost everything we need.

I think that this Administration has shown Alaskans some deference in terms of Willow, the largest oil project that our state, our nation has seen in decades.

I actually was very interested to hear the report of Mr. Meyer on the white oak issue.

I have heard stories from people across Alaska, some of the most rural and distant parts of our country, of about 20 people sharing a house with only three bedrooms and one bathroom. They sleep in shifts because they don't have enough…

it should not take a Member of Congress to set up a meeting;

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