I think listening is always a very good thing, and they will be very excited to have you there listening.
It is just a devastating impact on the population in Indian Country.
It is just an enormously serious health condition, as you know.
If we don't deal with this, it is hard for me to imagine these other issues that we are concerned about work very well.
I don't want the Congress or this Committee to be the arbiter of who should be recognized and who shouldn't be recognized.
The system isn't working. We really do have, in many cases, 20, 30 or longer years in which tribes file petitions and never quite get an ans...
I will be very honest, I am not sure why people bother with it. Because it has to be so impossibly cumbersome.
I think you are the right person for the job, and I will wrap up by saying, you do have some challenges.
I also say thank you for putting this hearing together.
Your testimony today is probably unprecedented... a level of government involvement in the financial institution that we have maybe never se...
I could see the frown grow on your face as I asked this question, and I understand, but if we do not figure this out you are going to need a...