"Thank you, Chairman Gallego, Ranking Member Cook, the distinguished members of the Committee for inviting me to speak today about H.R. 312, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Reservation Reaffirmation Act."
"Time is of the essence."
"I think it's a particularly sad statement that 400 years later they still have to defend against attacks on their lands."
"This bipartisan legislation would direct the Department of the Interior to keep 320 acres of Mashpee Wampanoag land in southeastern Massachusetts in trust as federally recognized reservation land."
"These two bills, H.R. 375 and H.R. 312, would put many tribes on the pathway to better health, better education and great self-reliance."
"the solutions coming out of the White House are making it worse, not better, and I darn sure don't want to take 6, 7, $8 billion out of DOD to build some wall that isn't going to make the situation an..."
"There has to be--you know, it is like when the cords get all bundled up, there has got to be some place to start to sort of pull it apart and start working."
"I think is folly. In a $4.75 trillion budget, obsessing over tens of billions of dollars in the discretionary portion of it, be it defense or non-defense, isn't all that helpful from a fiscal responsi..."
"This committee does not accept that."
"It is dangerous to have national security analysis conform to politics."
"It is just astounding. It is bizarre."