If you are taking money for repair and you are on a list, either the three-school list or the new list, and you start doing repair work, sometimes there is concern that that is going to move you down the list.

I think being more responsible and making sure and ensuring that those dollars actually go to native students is an issue that we have to address.

The sequestration is going to take $220 million from IHS, and I think for many of us, we were quite surprised.

I am so proud of your work, the administration's work, your staff's work.

While Indian education is a tough responsibility for the Department of the Interior, it is a moral responsibility for all of us.

That rate is half of what our state sees for white students.

Right now, with sequestration, we have Impact Aid really being cut.

I just wanted to put it on the radar.

I think one of the boxes that we are all going to have to ask are checked off by our colleagues and by the Administration is: and how are the Indian children and elders doing?

water comes down to, as you so eloquently said, a basic human right.

I have actually seen doctors in action doing it. We do it with some of our low-income immigrant groups, as well as our Native American families.

Could you set up a meter that would watch how much I am using to consume for my basic needs versus my lawn care?