Jerry Moran

Contract support would be underfunded by about $149 million.

The Indian Health Service did not tell this committee how much the budget was going to be short.

We recognize the agencies may sometimes find that they must spend unrestricted appropriated funds to satisfy needs they believe more important than fulfilling a contractual obligation.

I do not know how you represent as vast an amount of land and diversity as you do, but you do a great job.

I want to thank you, Chairman Young, for being here to introduce the leaders of the Alaska tribes and villages.

It is good testimony, and it involves Idaho and the northwest, so I think I will defer to those who are more intimately familiar with it.

Our hope is that there will be no funding for further bridging of the trail in the fiscal year 2013, Interior Appropriations Bill and future bills.

We strongly support language in the fiscal year 2004, committee report stating, 'The committee believes that future federal funding for Everglades restoration should be tied to specific progress to improve water quality.'

The committee believes that future federal funding for Everglades restoration should be tied to specific progress to improve water quality.

As I understand the Law and Order Act, I do not mean to use political terms here, but it is another unfunded mandate.

I thank the committee for this opportunity to provide testimony on a path forward to ensure that many Navajo families who have suffered under these Federal actions can have hope for a better life.

I urge the subcommittee to increase funding for housing and other improvements in the former Bennett freeze area.

The impact of the land dispute and building freeze will be with the Navajo Nation for many generations.

If you do not get what you think you deserve, and have every right to expect, it is not the fault of any of the members sitting at the table right now.

So you get less than half the total money that was allocated?

BIA's overhead? No, Bureau of Reclamation you said?

The message I received when I was hired by the chairman, and the vice-chairman Honanie, was we need to do something about, you know, law and order.

The reported contract support costs shortfall is nearly $5 million annual just for the Choctaw Nation.

We are asking an increase of $100 million over the President's request.

We are asking for an increase of $200 million.

We are requesting Joint Venture increase to $90 million.

Appropriations in Indian Country remain severely deficient for each of the programs that we are going to talk about.

NCAI looks forward to working with this Subcommittee to ensure that federal programs that fulfill the trust responsibilities to tribes continue to receive bipartisan support in the appropriations process.

Thank you all for making the effort to come here. You know, we are here every day, but I know it takes a lot of logistics and cost and disruptions in your schedules to get here.

Despite a somewhat abbreviated hearing schedule this year, I am proud that the Subcommittee is able to hold hearings on these very important programs.