I am committed to making sure these resources are equitably distributed and accessible to tribal nations.

I think a lot of times Federal agencies are trying to figure out how to implement something when Congress also has a job to do that it hasn't done.

I remember quite well, leaders, the many conversations we had between the CARES Act and the American Rescue Plan, which I think was an example of a significant improvement in terms of providing direct funding.

It is meaningful to convene this Committee hearing on the sovereign lands of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community and I thank the Tribe for their generosity in hosting us.

This place that is now called Minnesota is the ancestral home of the Dakota and Anishinaabe people, and other indigenous people, who have lived in and cared for this beautiful part of the world for millennia.

I take this work seriously, because I have heard time and again from tribal leaders who have been frustrated by policy decisions being made without Native voices at the table.

It is important to understand the government-to-government relationship between Minnesota tribes and the Federal Government.

This bill can be a turning point for how the Federal government partners with Tribal Nations.

Funding needs to be flexible.

I think the opportunity with the Infrastructure and Jobs Act is significant.

It has been a long day. It`s been a devastating day. But I just am thinking about the women who showed up about at clinics in Texas and Mississippi and other states around this country, expecting to be able to exercise their freedom and…

we also the fight back at the ballot box, and hold these Republicans accountable who have fulfilled their dream of making abortion -- overturning Roe.