I think that would be significant and I think an undercutting of sovereignty trust responsibility if we were to establish a precedent that essentially, whether you want to call it consultation, but would provide a state or another local…

Effective, meaningful tribal consultation as a matter of law.

The goals of the legislation are simple and straightforward: effective, meaningful tribal consultation as a matter of law.

The ideas for Indian Country come from Indian Country.

But politically speaking, what confidence do I have going into the future that more money, as I said, won't end up at some other project, whether it is the border wall or something else into the future?

I think I just want to reiterate what many of my other colleagues, both on the right and the left side of me, have said in regards to how disturbed we are that money is going to be taken without legislative approval for projects from the…

this is a rare moment, this bipartisanship that has broken out in the state of Arizona, here in Congress, and it is a welcome sight, and we hope we can see more of that in the future.

Knowing that environmental requirements and our Nation's environmental laws are going to be respected by the DCP, I think, is the added impetus to moving this as rapidly as possible.

I also want to note the absolute critical role of the tribes in the DCP, the Colorado River Indian Tribes, and the Gila River Indian Community are essential to the DCP's success.

It respects the environmental laws, as you outlined, and allows us to immediately authorize the DCP, which is very, very important, given the urgency of time and the millions of people that are affected by what we do here.

I will be introducing legislation shortly to authorize the DCP and expedite its movement through Committee and eventually action.