Dan Kildee actually said...

"We do have in the Constitution our basis for our relationship to the sovereign nations."

"Your abiding interest in justice for our Native Americans certainly reaches back to at least the 33 years that you have been in Congress, and the Indians have benefitted from your sense of justice."

"I hope that your underlying attitude in implementing this bill would be one of streamlining, so money would not be lost."

"I think we have to recognize that. We are not talking to some corporation, or the Elks Club, or the Knights of Columbus, but we are talking to sovereign nations and their rights under their sovereignt..."