"That relationship, you know, should improve because of this committee hearing today."
"if President Trump were to fully revive this committee, do you think that the council could provide more inclusion and transparency for Tribal communities"
"And United States Congress has power of the purse."
"I personally believe that the efforts of genocide on the first Americans has never ended..."
"I have the right and I believe the responsibility to take this opportunity to apologize on behalf of the United States Congress"
"we have to get to the root of the problem and start talking about some of the systematic inequalities that have held Indian country back"
"I look forward to working with all of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to rectify these wrongs."
"But we need the whole entirety of Congress to do the same."
"I believe that I say what I say because it is only right that we State that in public record."
"We have a big problem when we have a President who is misusing his access to the loudest megaphones in the land."
"I am concerned, gentlemen, that we have a problem right now, that over 120,000 lives have been lost in the United States due to COVID-19."