Tom Udall actually said...

"I do not want to see that happen because I believe that this is a project, as I said, long overdue, that has to be completed, and it is on a good track now, and we should not have to see it setback."

"It is not only illegal but immoral for IHS (and BIA, too) to structure their budgets in such a way that they cut only tribally administered IHS and BIA programs."

"This is rank discrimination--racial discrimination--and it must stop."

"Whatever the subcommittee chooses to do, the answer is, unequivocally, not to legislatively amend the Indian Self-Determination Act to cut off our rights to compensation for IHS's contract under-payme..."