Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for the compliment. I have been called a lot of things on this floor, including dean. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of this legislation. I thank my friend, Representative Gallego, for introducing it. This is a good bill. It improves a bill which I passed 30 years ago, and it is long overdue to make sure that it is running right. As has been said, it establishes a new National Indian Resource Services Center, which was created over 30 years ago. We are reauthorizing these programs, making sure they work. It is badly needed because of actions across the country with indigenous people. We hope the victims will have better service than they have in the past. I congratulate the author of the legislation. I am a sponsor of the legislation also. This is a good bill, and I urge the passage of this bill. All of my colleagues who understand, let's do the job we were told to do when we became trustees of the indigenous people of this great Nation of ours. Again, I thank the chairman, the author of the legislation, and the ranking member for all the work they have done.”