"I appreciate the opportunity to testify today before members of the Subcommittee."
"What we want to do is build out that capacity of self-determination."
"I did a little work on State taxation in Indian country. I would dispute some of your statements."
"I think one of the biggest complaints that I hear repeatedly in Indian country is that the system of Federal regulation treats these as if they were public lands and not tribal lands."
"I hope so."
"I think both of you acknowledge that this is land that first and foremost the tribes have primacy over."
"I think everyone wants to get out of the business of being paternalistic."
"I want to go back to Senator Tester's discussion about one stop shop and accommodating those concerns not from the standpoint of just ease of discussion but accountability of all those agencies to wor..."
"You do understand their problem with this distinction of public land versus tribal land?"
"It would be critical and be a huge step forward if the appropriations would come and federally impacted schools are going to get their first payment as schools begin."
"In November last year I went to the visit Cannon Ball Elementary School which is located within the Standing Rock reservation."