Joe Garcia: “What I don't want people to take away from this hearing is that all of a sudden we forgot about the tired and the poor.”

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.

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.

I look forward to working with the members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to ensure that Federal transportation policies...honor the Nation's treaty and trust responsibilities to Tribes.

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