Political Quotes

I hope the Chairman might join me in requesting a briefing from the Departments of the Interior and Justice to advance our efforts to help bring about a positive resolution to the missing, murdered Indigenous women crisis.

I am pleased that the Department of the Interior has included in its budget proposal a new initiative to combat crime, specifically against Native American women in Indian Country.

There also appears to be a consensus among experts that the trend of high rates of domestic violence against Native women continue despite the enactment of two major Federal laws since 2010 to tackle this problem.

Crime and violence, tragically, are not a new phenomenon in Indian Country.