Jerry Moran

contract support would be underfunded by about $149 million.

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

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

there would be a 99.4 million shortfall in fiscal year 2013.

When we use the word 'speculation', it seems to have developed a negative connotation.

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.

The need for transparency and accountability in our financial markets also extends to those who regulate them.

I think your answer to my question suggests that in this case, that's what you're doing.

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

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

So a school system, for example, could buy them in quantity at wholesale prices.

No matter how much they invest in science, no matter how many people they put into 'productivity', they are never going to have the innovative and creative capacity that we have, and it is because of the humanities.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.