Many of the fee-to-trust applications are for essential government services these days.

Often when people are unfamiliar with these issues, think of land-into-trust, they think immediately of gaming.

We see conditions that exist in Third World countries.

The interminable delay that often exists now is very troublesome.

In most circumstances, gaming has almost nothing to do with land-in-trust.

I think is difficult and troublesome.

So my concern, Mr. Chairman, is that cutting the construction funding at a time when fully one-third of those schools for young Indian children run by the BIA are poor quality schools.

the proposed cut in funding for tribal colleges really will wipe out the 2 years of progress that Senator Burns and I and other Members of the Congress have made on tribal college funding.

I really think we need to try to continue that funding process.

I certainly do not support.

Your budget would eliminate the State-side assistance grants through the LWCF.

We need to move to a different construct for energy.