Tom Udall

One of the things I am wondering is, you have State and local governments and then you have tribal governments.

I think actually it is even worse than you said. I think it is about three to one.

We are hoping to educate people through you.

Senator McCain sits on this Committee. His medical care through the Veterans Administration is not taxed.

The role of the Indian Tribal Governments Office is only as wide as the responsibility of the Internal Revenue Service.

Is it the practice of the IRS to audit a State or local government without first providing some guidance or bulletin on the subject of the audit?

The situation cries out for a Congressional fix.

The Indian Health Service attempts to address these disparities by delivering health services to tribal communities.

Native Americans face health disparities at almost every level.

I just wanted to briefly, Chairman Dorgan, say thank you again for focusing on this issue, and thank you for focusing our attention on youth suicide in Indian Country.

We need to invest in our youth and provide them with the support they need.

I believe we must improve oversight, but in a responsible manner that doesn't over burden honest applicants.

Balancing future supply and demand is impossible given the geologically finite supply of oil.

We face a fate worse than oil dependence--global oil scarcity.

Our oil dependence is fully recognized as a national security problem.

I am hoping that you being able to speak and me giving up my time to you, that you may be able to persuade some of your former colleagues on the other side of the importance of doing climate change legislation.

Senator Murkowski was pointing out to me that in some cases the ski industry is actually working hard to save individual trees.

I remember being on the side of a fire, I'm sure Senator Murkowski has had this experience.

It's also important to emphasize that there's a great need to reduce the severity of wildfires proactively.

We need to continue to work with the ski industry.

I think we are doing everything we can to protect them, starting with the lowest income consumers.

We support legislation that invests in using energy more efficiently and producing more clean energy at home and sets a cap on greenhouse gases to reduce emissions level guided by science to avoid dangerous global warming.

When we look at our job growth in our State, overall job growth is up 1.9 percent, but jobs related to the new energy economy are up 11.9 percent.

We will either be buying the wind turbines and the car batteries from China, or we will be selling the wind turbines and the batteries to China.

We are engaging in what will be this generation's version of the space race, an energy race to provide the technologies that will power the 21st century.