"Thank you, President Harvier, for pointing out how much your tribe actually provides to carry out the functions that the Federal Government, in its trust responsibility, is supposed to be doing."
"The flexibility that compacting provides and the flexibility within the IHS system, in terms of the multiple sources of revenue really makes a difference."
"I will continue to fight for the RICO amendments. We are not giving that up because the uranium mining needs, we need to address that."
"I think that is the most efficient program you have seen, and I think that that is a testimony to the fact of how bad things were and how important it was to finally address it."
"We are peeling back the layers of what happened to the tribes, and how we reacquire the land is going to take an awareness and acknowledgement of those things."
"As we know, listening to the need for Black Hills to be restored is something that we all should constantly remember on this Committee."
"Nobody wants to leave the beautiful islands... but they feel that they must to seek health care."
"There definitely has to be some reconciliation, because what we do not want to experience is becoming wards of our state."
"I find it very important. I am very appreciative of the work you are doing in New Mexico on other matters."
"we need to be careful that kicking the can down the road is really not acceptable because of its impact on private individuals like ranchers."
"I am pleased that the Biden administration has adopted this approach and is moving towards that."
"We are going to look for those kinds of co-stewardship agreements because we hear over and over again in San Felipe Pueblo there is an inholding completely surrounded by reservation land that needs to..."