Daniel Inouye: “this subcommittee has that assignment of preventing sequestration, and we will do our absolute best. I can assure you…”

I can assure you that we are doing our very best to avoid sequestration, because if that ever happens then this hearing is for naught.

He told us that in his view, all tribes have a prepaid health plan, and that it was paid for by our ancestors who ceded their lands to the United States.

it is and has always been Federal law and policy that Indian tribes recognized by the Federal Government stand on an equal footing to each other and to the Federal Government.

This sequestration, coupled with projected discretionary defense spending, could add 1 percent to the national unemployment rate from job losses.