I started working on cleanup with Tom Udall over 20 years ago.

Johnson O'Malley is something you could use. And then for your cultural centers, also for youth, right?

It is one thing to call you back here for 5 minutes of testimony and talk to you about it. It is something else to go out on the reservation and actually talk to people and see the challenges that you are facing on the reservations.

This is crazy. And Ms. Pingree and I, with the chair, we worked on the Bug School.

I think we are going to have to go to school on Medicaid and Medicare because that is mostly in the tax preview.

I am glad you brought TRIO up. TRIO is primarily I would say... this is what I have witnessed in my office and back at home in the district.

It is going to be a huge price tag.

I think the administration and the Congress need to figure out how to get these dollars out.

These water settlements are judgments. These water settlements are contracts the United States Government entered into.

We were the first State in 2021 to put together a State task force on it.

84 percent of my Native-American sisters will experience sexual violence, that was mind blowing.

Congratulations. They are finishing. That is great because some students just kind of have to go, not full-time, but three-quarter time or part-time, especially returning adults.

It has been a game changer in communities.

I would just like to agree with everything that has been said, including thank you so much for your time for coming.

So opening up a mining principle into Superior National Forest for that principle will find its way into the boundary waters.

The percentage of Native Americans who serve our Nation compared to any other population is off the charts.

I was there, I voted against the storage, and my fear was not only we were being disrespectful to the tribes, but that it would be permanently stored there.

there is more that we can do on that, so thank you for bringing that up again.

There isn't any mining that can happen that will not affect an ecosystem in a negative way.

If we do not enact a supplemental, how will this impact the services' fiscal year 2024 base activities?

The fundamental strength of our Nation's defense is in the strength of our military personnel and their families.

the States need to be consulted and need to be full partners moving forward.

70 percent of Guard members wish to stay in the Guard.

It needs to be resolved. It needs to be resolved immediately.

the Space Force, in my opinion, was hastily put together. I am not opposed to the fact that we have a Space Force; but Congress, in my opinion, did not give all the due diligence as to how this was going to be organized.