Tom Udall

Do not get sick after June, and that is because we ran out of money in this purchased and referred care item.

If Medicaid expansion funding were eliminated, how much additional purchased and referred care appropriations funding would IHS need to maintain care above Medical Priority Level 1?

They are concerned about returning to an era of IHS healthcare rationing.

This budget reduces funding for purchased and referred care by over $14 million.

I am proud of the subcommittee's work that included an increase for IHS in the most recent Omnibus.

It is a really deplorable situation, which we hope you can assure us that we are going to get on a path, so we can remedy this.

We commend Senator Tom Udall and the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs for taking up this important strengthening of the Arts and Crafts Act

I fully support efforts to enhance and enforce legislation providing harsher penalties for those who would cheat our indigenous artists by appropriating their culture.

I support the modernization of the Indian Arts and Crafts Act, especially the aggregation and forfeiture issues.

I support Senator Udall's modernization proposal of the Indian Arts and Crafts Act.

I fully support Tom Udall's efforts to strengthen the Indian Arts & Crafts Act of 1990 to further protect our Native American Art.

I believe it is long overdue to modernize the 1990 IACA, and help protect Indian artists of federally-recognized tribes.

I was very pleased your committee visited Santa Fe for a Field Hearing on Modernizing the Indian Arts and Crafts Act (IACA) on July 7th 2017.

I would ask that in addition to revising the statute, that you would also consider respectively contacting the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

I would like to see them change the term 'Indian' and look more at cultural affiliation for artists.

There is a tremendous need for that.

I think we need to watch out for each other, and we need to help.

An issue that concerns me is the impact of fake, mass-produced goods that are marketed as authentic Indian arts and crafts on the local economy.

And I think it's important as a priority, and I will be conveying that to whoever becomes the next U.S. attorney.

Now, Mr. Martinez, like any agency, we are oftentimes forced to juggle priorities when we have limited resources.

If you can incorporate that requirement in the statute itself, that's going to make a difference.

And so it sounds like that could be the difference.

I just really want to thank this panel... I think all of us... we've learned a lot.

I think all of our witnesses are very much in agreement there.

Like you say, it is a new age. And if people are violating the law, we're going to be coming after them, and they will be brought to justice.