All citizens in Hawaii will obey the commands of military officers.

Mr. President, I rise today to recognize Frederick M. Kaiser, who retired from the Congressional Research Service, CRS, on November 3, 2011. Mr. Kaiser, a former Specialist in American National Government at CRS, was an authority on…

Mr. President, on behalf of myself and my Army Caucus cochair, the senior Senator from Oklahoma, Mr. Jim Inhofe, I rise to congratulate GEN Peter W. Chiarelli, the 32nd Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, on his monumental contributions to…

Mr. President, I would like to announce that the Committee on Indian Affairs will meet on Thursday, December 8, 2011, at 2:15 p.m. in room 628 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building to conduct a business meeting to consider S. 1763, the…

Mr. President, I rise to express my deep concerns with the payroll tax alternative that our colleagues have proposed. Their alternative would be paid for by extending the current pay freeze for Federal employees through 2015 and requiring…

the statistics for broadband penetration are even more troubling--less than 10 percent of residents on Tribal lands have access to the lifeblood of our 21st century economy.

Tribes need strong local economies, not just to provide jobs and services to their own members.

the lack of all communications services in Indian Country is alarming.

over 70 years of development and expansion of the telecommunications industry has resulted in only a 67.9 percent basic telephone service penetration rate.

Today, our Country finds itself in very difficult economic times.

Many Native communities have been hit hard by the economic downturn and stagnant job market.