Pete Domenici: “I want to talk with him for a moment about what we have done for the U.S. Government-owned-and-maintained Indian schools…”

“I want to talk with him for a moment about what we have done for the U.S. Government-owned-and-maintained Indian schools in the United States in the Interior appropriations bill. First, when we are finished supplying the numbers for the Record, which are obviously in the bill, it should not go unnoticed that this is the first time we have substantially--and I mean substantially--increased the money for the construction of Indian schools owned by the U.S. Government. Let's not be confused with public schools. These are schools that if the Federal Government does not pay for, I ask my chairman, nobody will pay for them, right; they belong to us?”