Congress must not take our treaty and trust responsibilities lightly.

I am pleased to be leading a bipartisan bill in the House to authorize advanced appropriations for the Indian Health Services.

New Mexico has some of the worst poverty rates in the Nation. In fact, half of our population is Medicaid eligible.

I urge the committee to provide robust funding for victim advocates in state courts, especially for indigenous people experiencing this more than normal, higher rate of sexual assault and domestic violence in urban locations.

What does this mean? When we talk about evidence-based practices and the practices that we are supposed to implement within our tribal clinics, the evidence that is gathered for these practices don't actually represent us.

We are not battling an opiate epidemic. We are battling a trauma epidemic.

We have actually built out an MSW practicum program because we are treating these dips with parity.

I wanted to let you know that the Urban Indian Health Institute is funded through IHS for just under $400,000 a year.

The funding has never been adequate and everybody knows that. It will never be adequate.

Our people are dying. People are dying in a manner that we can't control.

If one group of people on this planet knows how to stretch the dollar, it is us.