I was pleased to see that you are here today, the Food for Peace office on the witness list.

I am concerned about the potential for future rescissions and the increasing levels of unobligated fund balances within IDA and other food assistance accounts.

we support efforts by Representative Betty McCollum and other members of the House Committee on Appropriations to freeze or eliminate funding for reorganization until Interior has consulted with tribes.

We owe it to the next generations to leave them a world-class infrastructure system that uses advanced technologies to address our toughest problems in environmentally sustainable ways.

Thank you for coming.

We want to do everything we can to help you downstream.

I view this as a partnership that we have with our tribal brothers and sisters.

None of the VAWA dollars flow to organizations like the Seattle Indian Health Board because they go to the counties.

We talk about what do we do after they are raped.

I can't tell you the rate of missing and murdered indigenous women, and that is because the police departments aren't collecting race and ethnicity.

And you have my pledge--and I know as well as every member on this committee, both Republican and Democrat--to be a forceful voice that this will never happen again.

We conducted the very first study on 71 cities across the United States, and we found high instances of missing and murdered native women.