the one other thing that you mentioned that is very important to me is maintaining the languages.

Every child deserves an education and in conditions that are safe.

Are you competent to make decisions of what is in the best interest of your tribe on your own lands?

Personally, being from Idaho, Alaska is the one state I have never been to, one of the two or three, which is kind of surprising.

We should never have to. In the Indian Health Service, we are the ones who provide care just as the veterans do.

You just said that violence against women was 10 times higher.

I am surprised that Joyce and Betty were not here to protect the Great Lakes because if Kim was still here he would tell you if they are not going to protect them, he is taking it to California because they have a severe drought there.

We need to have a more ordered process of making sure we get the reauthorizations done.

And, of course, San Diego Zoo speaks for itself. You don't have to say a heck of a lot more than that.

I tell you how much of a wolf advocate I was. When I first came here, I had a piece of legislations called PAW, called Protect American Wolves.

But you cannot put children in unsafe, unsanitary, dangerous buildings and expect them to learn.

There are rec fees on a lot of our national forests when you go park at a certain place.

What I agree with is that like the Coalition of Large Tribes and all the tribes that are getting together, like you said, the three tribes that are coming together with us that we are willing to give our expertise developing it and getting…

Get it out of the grant cycle, get it into permanent recurring funding for the Indian Health Service.

Thanks, Charles, for being here today, and testifying on behalf of the American Dental Association.

We have at least $30 million of outstanding claims. Like the gentleman prior said, those dollars are spent.

I wish to thank you, Congressman Simpson, and Ranking Member Moran for all of your work on this front.

Thank you, and thank all of you for being here today, and for your testimony. We appreciate it very much.

Please urge IHS to promptly settle outstanding contract support claims.

Maybe the most honest statement that has ever been made in Congress, you cannot afford us.

I appreciate that, and there really are, and a lot of people do not understand the importance of the arts and what it does, and historic preservation is very important.

It is clear to me that if we are really going to have a change in how we construct school buildings and so forth on the reservation, it is going to have to come from this committee.

The right people aren't here to hear that.

Thank you both for being here today. I appreciate it very much.

As you know, I don't have to tell you anything you don't already know, but diabetes is a problem particularly among the Indian population.