Betty McCollum

I am really excited to bring back this important tradition of public witness days.

Well, that is one of the reasons why when Asian carp became a topic here in Washington, DC...

And we always say that IHS would rather cut off a limb than prevent it, and that is just devastating and sad.

I don't want to just assume that I know what will work best because we don't want to leave anyone behind.

We want to hunt them, kill them, and eat them.

I believe it rightfully belongs as mandatory funding and am working as hard as I can with colleagues.

We need to see if it is statute, rule, or whatever.

the President proposes and Congress disposes.

I couldn't be more excited, I couldn't be happier than to have their voices at the table.

I loved what you said, Ms. Grussing, that you are the first responders when a sacred site is threatened.

It really was a lifesaver that you had that appropriation put in place to deal with the emergency.

Chairwoman McCollum, you are a long-time champion of the Land and Water Conservation Fund, and we appreciate your advocacy for LWCF dollars to facilitate the buyout of State school trust lands in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.

Unless he, you know, gives us an A-plus budget this time for tribal affairs, you will see the House step forward and do everything that we can to do right by our Native American brothers and sisters.

I am going to talk to my counterpart Chair DeLauro, and she is interested in working more in Indian Country.

I hope you are having discussions with your new Governor on that issue.

We work on this nonpartisanly, not even bipartisanly, when it comes to Native American issues.

The President's budget for GLRI is 90 percent below the fiscal year 2019 enacted.

I am going to look into see how involved tribes are in consultation in doing the research.

it is knowingly morally wrong to have people drinking poison.

I would encourage anyone who would like to go out to Walter Reed, we can arrange for that to happen through this committee.

the power that it has to be destructive in your body is something as a State representative, as a mom, just as a citizen, it is something that you really worry about.

We are working on the buildings.

We need to... have an adult conversation we all need to have in Congress about what to do.

I would like to know what is happening in that realm.

I really think we--and I mean the Federal Government--we need to be challenging ourselves to go to the highest standards when it comes to cleaning up these contaminants.