Tom Udall

We have five well-qualified candidates with impressive resumes being considered today.

Thank you very much, Chairman Barrasso, for holding this hearing.

I am concerned about how the Air Force is going to respond and plan for future threats.

I am a big supporter of telehealth and many of the other strategies you mentioned.

When critical public health facilities close, people are going to die. That is what is going to happen.

We need more resources for the agency to recruit and retain competent and committed staff.

I am pleased that the IHS officials from Rockville recently visited the NCI Detox Center which is expected to run out of funding at the end of next month.

When Senator Dorgan was our chairman, we highlighted this.

I have introduced a bill with Senator Murkowski that would make the IHS Health Professions Awards Program exempt from a Federal income tax requirement.

It is intolerable that any IHS emergency facility close for any amount of time.

And the question focusing on my migration, how could that best be used in order...

And I know she mentioned this because my staff told me.

I think we are trying to do that at the Federal executive level.

I could not agree with you, and Senator Menendez, and Senator Cardin in terms of democracy and human rights.

The administration remains committed to a stable and secure Afghanistan, and we remain convinced that a negotiated settlement between the Government of Afghanistan and the Taliban is the surest way to end the conflict.

This year is almost over. It will likely be the warmest year on record, and the current record holder, last year, 2014.

And quite clearly, this hearing was called to inject controversy and skepticism into the issue of climate science and research, to cast doubt on the work of many scientists.

My bill, the Esther Martinez Native American Languages Preservation Act provides grants to Native American language and educational organizations to help preserve dying Native languages in Indian country.

We want to do everything we can to ensure that the children in Indian country have the best education possible.

Have you seen improvements over this time or do you think the current state of education for Native students is worse than a decade ago?

Thank you, Mr. MoQuino, for those comments.

That is a big barrier.

We really have to work on that one.

They are telling the elders who have spoken this language sometimes for 70 or 80 years that they have to go back and get a degree in order to learn how to teach the language to the younger people?

We can and must do more for our children.