I have been encouraged to see this administration's commitment to improving the safety of our food supply.

We are equally delighted by increases for these programs proposed in the President's fiscal year 2011 Obama budget request--a great step towards the administration's stated goal of fully funding the LWCF by the year 2014.

We need you to fulfill that commitment by providing us with the resources we need to make their path toward a quality education easier to navigate.

I respectfully ask the subcommittee to continue its commitment to the creative sector by supporting an increase in the NEA fiscal year 2011 budget to $180 million to save jobs, educate our children, and maintain America's cultural dynamism.

I urge the subcommittee to support an allocation of $300 million to the Fish and Wildlife Service budget for land acquisition through the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

I want to thank Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein and the subcommittee members for the opportunity to submit written testimony.

The administration's proposed fiscal year 2011 budget threatens to undo the progress made by Congress.

Unless the Federal Government continues to invest in the lakes these problems will get worse and the price we pay will be higher.

It is an honor to provide this written testimony regarding one of our Nation's most prized natural and economic resources--the Great Lakes.

We urge the subcommittee to set the course towards this goal by including substantial funding increases in the fiscal year 2011 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bill for these two important programs.

The United States made a commitment to the Indian children enrolled in the 183 BIE schools, including the Indian children at Black Mesa.

Over the LWCF program's 44-year history only once has it been fully funded at the congressionally authorized level of $900 million annually.

Chairman Feinstein and members of the subcommittee, the National Trust for Historic Preservation asks that you support job creation, sustainability and smart growth by appropriating funding for the Nation's core historic preservation…

Thank you Chairwoman Feinstein for allowing the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma to submit written testimony on these needs.

Thank you Chairwoman Feinstein, Ranking Member Alexander, and members of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies for the opportunity to provide testimony.

40 million people rely on the Great Lakes for their drinking water, and millions more benefit from the commerce and business that depend on the waters of the Great Lakes.

If these invasive species get in, it can be literally disastrous and very difficult to control.

This needs to be an absolute national priority.

It is something I am completely supportive of.

Lake Tahoe, first of all, is a national treasure. It deserves national attention.

I am delighted to be joined by Senator Ensign, who has been very helpful, as I just said on the land moneys from Nevada with this.

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I hope we have a bill that has broad new disclosure requirements, approval by stockholders, has a CEO standing up on the disclaimer.