Joe Garcia: “It is our responsibility as the Congress to find a way past this and to find agreement among ourselves.”

I ask this committee to empower Tribal Government in the next reauthorization measure by giving Tribes the resources they need.

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

The BIE cannot be trusted to provide a safe environment for our children in the learning environment.

I come from a rich culture in the Pueblo country in Ohkay Owingeh, and so I think it is important that I didn't learn all of the things that I knew about social life and culture and language and all of that in an education setting.