Betty McCollum

I have a problem with it, if it does not have something in it.

We are going to lose a lot of trees with that.

It is a shame that we would lose Native languages not only just for the First Americans, but to lose the languages that saved lives during World War II.

I put my neck out on the chopping block and supported it. It was absolutely the right thing to do.

I look forward to today's hearing, and I want to thank all of the people testifying for their travel to Washington, D.C.

I am not a fan of Race to the Top, and I was not excited to hear that the President was taking this program and putting it in pre-K and I will tell you why.

What we are asking is that the National Park clean out the dense, unnatural growth that you see in the picture that is caused by the phosphorus and pollutants that is in the water.

I would like to thank Ms. McCollum for her efforts in supporting the school's initiatives.

The Esther Martinez Language Revitalization Act needs to be reauthorized.

Indian Country treats every resource with great respect and tries to use everything to its best ability.

It was when I was visiting Wisconsin tribes back a couple of years ago that the northern alliance tribes had taken a real aggressive conversation on what to do about drugs and drug addiction.

Native wild rice is very, very fragile. It needs absolutely pristine water to grow in.

I want to just reiterate that you would like the savings put back into Indian health because this is so under-funded and so desperately needed.

The tribes would petition to do that, because you need significant numbers of elders who can talk and speak the language.

Mr. Chair, thank you. Mr. Payment, we have been told by the BIE that they are committed to completing the long awaited Johnson-O'Malley student count this year.

Has there been any movement, any discussion at all, in the transportation departments that you work with about providing a bridge?

I have been in a couple of eldercare facilities. I am just wondering if--the Rosebud Nation mentioned their eldercare facility was really inadequate.

I was laughing about the mapping and the inventory stuff because it sounds like what you really need is a good librarian.

I really think if we took a field trip we could go to Leech Lake and Mille Lacs as well to look at what is going on in the immersion schools.

I just have to make a plug for what Joel was talking about with the youth conservation club.

I am so frustrated, I am so embarrassed when I talk to those students.

I will look at his testimony again more carefully, and Mr. Chair, then I will talk to you about some of the needs that he pointed out in there.

We cannot take it out of tribal healthcare to fund urban healthcare, and that has been, I think, the biggest friction between moving forward.

Has the council considered putting forth some organizational planning so that there are cluster of villages around the reservation?

You can't take them apart and the transportation costs for maintaining these buses.