"But our responsibility is to look out for the taxpayers, not these corporations and their profit margins."
"The American people are looking to Congress to cut back wasteful spending and make sure that every single Federal dollar is spent wisely."
"We are very much committed to do everything in our power for the economic recovery of this country..."
"the main issue is that regardless of how large an ANC gets, it is still economically disadvantaged."
"If there is no difference, then I would hope that you would be willing to accept and support a change in the law..."
"I do want to point out for the record that I think there has been a little bit of a blurring because the legislation that you proudly spoke of, Senator Begich, was passed in 1971."
"I also wanted to point out that there are subcontracting going on with major multinational corporations..."
"I think we have got something on the table here."
"With such a low number of Alaskans--45,000 people are employed by ANCs and only 5 percent of them are members of the corporations; 95 percent of the employees have nothing to do with the corporations."
"I also want to make sure that there is no misunderstanding about this. This has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not the Native people of Alaska have had struggles and challenges that are uniq..."
"We commend Senator Claire McCaskill, whose proposed legislation in this area aimed at preventing fraud and reverse mortgages."