I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant bill clerk proceeded to call the roll. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Iowa.

I rise today to talk about changing our Senate rules by a simple majority vote. That is what we did last week. Mr. President, as you know, the new classes that came in in your year and the year after have worked on these rule change…

I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is objection. The clerk will continue to call the roll.

I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is objection. The clerk will continue to call the roll. The legislative clerk continued the call of the roll.

But it is clear that after a period of exposure that some kind of monitoring and health inquiry should be done to see where they are in terms of their health?

Members of this community know how essential it is that our Nation's Tribal lands are not bypassed when broadband networks are built across the Nation.

I think what grew out of those hearings that was very positive was the 5-year plan.

I applaud the EPA's recent announcement of an improved plan to clean up the Northeast Church Rock Mine.

We believe the plan has the general support of the Navajo Nation and the local community.

Most people probably cannot imagine life without a telephone. Yet today more than 30 percent of households in Indian Country do not have access to basic telephone service.

What happens there as far as the families and their health impacts? What is recommended?

And really what we are talking about is a community, a Navajo community of some size, for the Navajo Nation, pulling groundwater from the aquifer there right near Crown Point, which is fairly good water, is my understanding.