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 pro...
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...
Some historians have called this a paper genocide.
That is what this legislation is all about.
But there is no doubt these tribes exist, have existed.
This has been a long and in many ways a very painful process, particularly to our friends, the Virginia Indian tribes.
This is a difficult thing for this country to come to grips with.
That is how severe the law was.
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.