I knew this panel rocked.

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

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

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

I appreciate what you said, and the comment about the embassies.

Well, thank you. That is something that we should take a look at and that perhaps should be a requirement for new construction.

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

Appropriations are a good investment. In Indian Country, when we have meaningful appropriations and the communities prosper, so does America.

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.