Have either of you spoken to President Trump about his desire for a wall at the southern border outweighing your service funding requirements?

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…

Because it would be a lot easier for us up here to advocate for more money for you if we knew it was being well spent.

We all can't be perfect, you know.

Indian Country in Arizona was truly putting their heart out there for Arizona, and if it wasn't for them working with us in a collaborative manner and really stretching themselves, this would never have been done.

This plan provides a safe haven for the Basin states and for the stakeholders.

Business as usual is not going to be business as usual.

I really want to thank Chairman Grijalva. We are very lucky as Arizonans... the fact that he has been able to do it smoothly...

I will be pushing for that.

These families, the American public deserve to know exactly what happened.

On March 22, I sent a letter to each of you and to Admiral Richardson asking whether your services also had the same readiness issues associated with unfunded mandates, including the southwest border operations.

Additionally, an independent report found at least 5,712 cases of missing or murdered indigenous women that were reported just in 2016.

The Federal Government, us, must live up to its trust responsibility and work toward real legislative solutions in true partnership with indigenous women.

Today, we will be confronting a deeply troubling and disturbing situation affecting Indian Country nationwide: the hidden crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women.

A lack of comprehensive data to quantify the number of missing and murdered women in Indian Country is just one factor contributing to this crisis.

A 2016 National Institute of Justice report noted that 1.5 million American Indian and Alaska Native women experience violence in their lifetime.

this is a serious, serious problem. When thousands of our U.S. citizens, our sisters, go missing, it is irresponsible for us to not do something.

It is a tragedy. It is a sin that we have done, and we need to do everything we can to fix this.

Can you speak to why it is important to address this crisis at a Federal level, as well as the local like you are trying right now?

On reservations, American Indian and Alaska Native women experience murder rates 10 times the national average.

Thank you, Ranking Member Cook, and I look forward to working with you in this Congress to move this along and bring some justice to our Indian Country.

In his announcement that he would declare a national emergency at the southern border to build a wall, President Trump said, quote: 'We have certain funds being used at the discretion of generals'.

A number of congressional colleagues, particularly those not on this committee, are often surprised to hear that we have no permanently based troops in Latvia, Lithuania, or Estonia, despite them being NATO allies.

Please identify which specific EDI MILCON projects, designed to increase readiness and lethality, previously identified by DOD as critically needed to deter Russian aggression, and funded by Congress, are less important than a wall in…

transgender people have zero impediments to service. They should be treated like any other soldier, sailor, airman, or Marine