Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise on the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls to express my outrage over more broken promises. In my home State of Arizona, we are mourning the death of 14-year-old Emily Pike, a member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe. Emily disappeared from Mesa earlier this year and was found brutally murdered 2 weeks later off of U.S. Highway 60. Months later, her case remains unsolved. Emily Pike, like Hanna Harris 30 years ago and hundreds and hundreds of native women and girls, should be alive today. It is far too common that their cases go cold and that loved ones are left without answers and without justice. To this day, the MMIP crisis remains the most underreported, under- discussed, and under-resourced tragedy in America, and Congress and Presidents have promised for decades to do much more to address it. Despite some progress towards justice for victims and their families, Trump's budget announced Friday strips millions of dollars from public safety and criminal justice programs across Indian Country. We have the unique trust responsibility to our Tribal Nations and rarely, if ever, has our Federal Government delivered. ____________________”