The whole issue about murdered indigenous women, First Nations in Canada has been working on it.
Betty McCollum
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Betty Louise McCollum is a U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 4th congressional district, serving since January 3, 2001. A member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, she has focused her legislative efforts on education, healthcare, and environmental issues. Throughout her tenure, McCollum has been an advocate for policies that support public education funding, access to affordable healthcare, and initiatives aimed at combating climate change. She has also been involved in various committees and has played a role in shaping national policy on these critical issues.
I would encourage anyone who would like to go out to Walter Reed, we can arrange for that to happen through this committee.
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 don't want to just assume that I know what will work best because we don't want to leave anyone behind.
We work on this nonpartisanly, not even bipartisanly, when it comes to Native American issues.
Because the increases that are talking about being needed, we need to make sure we are getting the biggest bang out of that dollar for our committee.
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.





