Tom Udall

What it would do is there is a national crime victims fund. It is $3 billion a year.

In my opinion, this is totally unacceptable.

I think we have good bipartisan support from the entire Committee.

We were able to secure $132 million, and that is for fiscal year 2018.

I believe that we need a new protocol, when it comes to missing and murdered indigenous women.

I know that the FBI can't speak to the Executive Office of the U.S. Attorneys' data, but to me it is alarming that the cause for most declinations is insufficient evidence.

We are very, very encouraged to hear that.

Today's hearing is an important step toward fully understand the scope and working to address the crisis in Indian Country.

It took a really long time for Ashley's name.

It is clear that States have a role in ensuring Native Americans are not overlooked in the criminal justice system.

Thank you to all the witnesses for your testimony.

The best practices in law enforcement are to have about 3 officers for 1,000 people, [yet] there's only 0.14 agents for 1,000 reservation residents.

I know Deb will bring her commitment to ending violence against Native women with her to D.C. next Congress.

Any kind of political intervention would be something I would be very, very allergic to.

It is worrisome if a person so closely involved in World Patent Marketing could fail to respond to a lawful subpoena.

I'm very concerned about what the appointment of Matthew Whitaker as Acting Attorney General says about the future of consumer protection.

I think it's appalling that they're below the Reagan administration level in terms of employees.

We need to ensure that our laws keep pace with technology.

Terrific. If you are getting all that done, I hope you are going to be serving there for a while.

Is this school site project plan still on track to be in place before the end of the month?

Thank you very much for doing that. We really appreciate your commitment to that.

Thank you very much for that.

The federal government must do more to support our tribal communities.

Since this Committee held a hearing to protect consumer data two weeks ago, consumers have already been subjected to two extraordinary data breaches.

I do think that one thing that is really great about that Act is that it gave rulemaking authority to the Federal Trade Commission.