John Hoeven

That is pretty sobering, isn't it, when you say it is seven years in the best case for needed energy, to move energy around the country.

This is the issue and it is a very, very important pressing issue.

We have to build that relationship with landowners which I believe we do.

I thank our ranking member. This is truly a bipartisan bill that we brought out of committee through the hard work and the leadership of both our chairman and ranking member. So I appreciate all of her diligent, good efforts on the bill…

Chairman Hoeven, Vice-Chairman, and members of the Committee, my name is A-dae Romero-Briones.

The Department of the Interior is supposed to facilitate tribal resource development.

In my home State of North Dakota, the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation... has been an industry leader in oil production.

These Federal programs are vitally important to Native American communities.

We have to build more, not only natural gas pipelines, but other pipelines as well.

Well, of course. It is clearly something we have to test and clearly something we have to figure out how we can develop testing for, because, obviously, we are going to need it.

On behalf of the United South and Eastern Tribes Sovereignty Protection Fund (USET SPF), we write to support President Donald Trump's nomination of Tara Mac Lean Sweeney.

We must do more to protect our Native American students.

You have an incredible Ops Center in California that is managing your unmanned aircraft along the border.

So you hit the nail on the head there. That is where I am going.

I am confident in Tara Sweeney's ability to advance the interests of Indian tribes.

Future VA Choice legislation must address the prioritization of Veteran care referrals via a mandated Right of First Refusal (ROFR) process.

We need to ensure that we are doing everything we can to support the tribes.

Do you think a rotational program for civilian employees in cyber work roles such as the bill that Senator Peters and I have introduced can be used as a tool to further develop and retain talent and create some of that consistency in the…

So you feel that is on track and that you have got the resources you need to do it.

That front end coordination is really important.

We truly have multiple use.

It's important to be able to execute with certainty any time we're doing major capital work.

Well, I am glad to hear that. We worked very hard to get the regulatory primacy.

Basin Electric is actually a generation and transmission cooperative that is owned by the rural electrics collectively and serves about three million, or probably more than three million, customers in about nine states.

I am very pleased this morning to welcome Mr. Matt Greek as one of our experts providing testimony this morning.