Jon Tester actually said...

If you had Federal recognition you could gain all those health care benefits.

I think you need to be deliberate and you need to be thoughtful. But you also need to get it done.

We need to keep working at this, get the process streamlined so things can happen in a positive way.

A former chairman of this Committee, Byron Dorgan, always felt that it was important that the Department do their job of recognition...