Darren Soto

Do you think having seminars and trainings for parents, students, teachers, administrators would be helpful on the subject?

But if we made you all elected with certain powers, then it would have some power and that would potentially help. Right?

Thank you. And we could maybe have an Act of Congress about it, but it would be greater if you all would look at having a parent advocate who would be available who could go along with these seminars and who parents can talk to as a…

If you could please get back to the Committee how many inspectors, and if there are any dedicated to the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

If it is an HR matter, I wouldn't know that.

Can you go back and confirm for us whether there are?

What are your ideas to improve that knowledge among teachers and students?

We know the history of Native American education in this country. It is history of kidnapping, of cultural eradication, of Eurocentric brainwashing.

Not only do you have our apologies but we will honor your losses with action, which I think is probably far more important today.

I have often thought this Committee is here to right the historic injustices that so many Native American tribes have experienced over the history of this Nation and prior to it.

What could we--what have we learned and can do better with regard to responding to hurricanes, particularly those in islands?

We want to be ready for that.

Will you commit that the FCC will finish that rulemaking so that as we get into a busier rocket season over the next couple of years that we'll be ready to go?

There are no attempts right now to downgrade the Florida panther, are there?

A bill that I worked on in the past, in a bipartisan manner last year, was to make the Kissimee River a wild and scenic river.

I think we have been very aggressive on pythons, and I think there is some interest in being more aggressive on that.

A bill that I worked on in the past, in a bipartisan manner last year, was to make the Kissimee River a wild and scenic river.

With regard to species, obviously first, the ones that are endangered.

The other issue we are working on developing is in a bipartisan way with Senator Rubio on re-instituting a Reef Protection Act.

It is important for me that we have a commitment that the Department of the Interior understands that that load could exacerbate red tide.

These are major bipartisan supported issues.

There is unanimous bipartisan opposition to that happening in Florida.

So we don't know how many people are dying still because of inaction; is that correct?

We can, as our prerogative, set up general progress--process, and then still on this law get more aggressive with certain chemicals, in this case asbestos.

The public expects us to get it right, particularly on public health.