"We appreciate your testimony, Charon, and thank you."
"I would encourage your efforts on behalf of rural health care to recognize this, not to be narrow in the way that we define who can be a provider."
"One of the things that seems so clear to me as we have finally begun the process of increasing the funding for veterans' health care is that the challenge we now face within the VA system is hiring an..."
"That is how severe the law was."
"This has been a long and in many ways a very painful process, particularly to our friends, the Virginia Indian tribes."
"A country noted worldwide as a champion of human rights, to find redress; to correct a wrong Virginia Indians have endured since the United States was formed."
"The Indian Nations of Virginia never took up arms against the United States which perhaps explains why there was never a treaty."
"Some historians have called this a paper genocide."
"This is a difficult thing for this country to come to grips with."
"When you realize the history, the travesty of justice that has occurred here, you feel almost a personal responsibility to rectify it."
"In the name of decency, fairness, and humanity, the Virginia tribes deserve federal recognition."