Joe Garcia: “I represent probably ground zero, if there is one, when it comes to global warming.”

The Federal Communications Commission found that only 65 percent of tribal lands have broadband networks and are the most digitally disconnected lands in the United States.

The plight of the indigenous peoples and the dire need for both Federal investment in our Tribal Nations is personal to me.

I am encouraged by Committee Chairman DeFazio's announcement last week of a transformational five-year, $760 billion investment in infrastructure.

That is the binding contract the United States entered into with Tribes, and from those treaties and other laws has arisen the United States' sacred trust responsibility to the Indian Nations and our peoples.