Tom Udall

I have been calling for a Marshall Plan to eliminate the backlog in construction and maintenance of BIA facilities.

It seems to me the key, I mean both of these witnesses here and the previous witnesses were focusing on education, but the real key is in healthy families in these native communities.

When the United States Government has a school, it is their school. We have a trust responsibility to run this school for Indian children.

I want to thank you for holding this hearing. It is a very important hearing both for the Country and native students.

I agree with my colleague, Senator Udall, that we have a national emergency on our hands. We must act before it is too late.

And clearly you want to give the top academic experience to your students, but because of these safety issues you are having to pull money away from that academic side. And that is obviously unacceptable.

A special thanks and appreciation is extended to New Mexico Senator Udall for his continued support regarding these issues.

If a school is going to fall down and kill 20 kids or 100 kids or something like that tomorrow, that is the one I would want you to be on top of

I think one of the keys is, as you said, mobilizing these other resources around the Federal Government.

The taxpayers and Native communities deserve assurance that these monies will be spent accountably and that they would be spent in a cost-effective way.

We should be able to fix a lot of the things that are going on.

It certainly left, I think, in many people's mouths a sour taste and questions about what the intent was of Transocean.

I think they would concern other members of the committee as well.

So what you all are urging is that we ratify these treaties and move forward with the countries around the world, and that we are slow to do that at this point.

I hope that she is watching today and seeing that you are doing a good job here, Sheldon, on this front.

Which isn't much, right?

Once again, they are being held up through secret holds, and Senator Coburn has said he is doing this on behalf of Members on his side--not allowing all of these people to get into the government and do the job. We are talking about…

We would be happy to have Senator Udall visit such a classroom.

I think this panel has really demonstrated dramatically how WRDA and other recovery projects we put into place over the last year or so, they are very successful at creating jobs.

Senators Tom Udall of New Mexico and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island met with the delegation.

The Federal Government has made a commitment to enhance the tribes' ability to become self-reliant, to become self-governing, to develop our own economies.

It is my understanding that a version of S. 439 was introduced in the 100 th Congress in response to a 1977 study by the American Indian Policy Review Commission that recommended the establishment of this, as we have been discussing, World…

The economic conditions that prevail all across Indian Country are still very extreme, extreme poverty and extremely limited opportunities.

Thank you, before you have to depart, for holding this important hearing.

These units of the National Park Service are economic engines, especially in times of economic difficulty, when families are looking for destinations closer to home.