Tom Udall

What is going on there is a disaster, and any attention, any help you can bring to that--there must be knowledge within the government body of what is happening and why.

This is a very important hearing, and I appreciate both of you working together on this and bringing these issues forward.

Any engagement you can do with the Tanzanian Government would be critical--I just want to reiterate the scale of killing there--50,000 elephants--that is from aerial census data--have been killed in that country in 5 years.

I do not want this to just be a downer here.

The most important thing, I would say tribal leadership taking the lead. They are already taking ownership for problems.

I think American ingenuity can solve many problems like these. We just need to get more innovators and researchers to focus.

I plan to introduce legislation in the Senate soon that is a companion to the House-passed Science Prize Competition Act.

We need to be investing in the National Science Foundation's work to fund basic research at universities and that kind of activity across the country.

I could not agree more with what others have said. It has been very insightful, and I think if we just worked with each other and took a little guidance from you, we could really make a difference on some of these issues.

I could not agree with you more in terms of NIH being woefully underfunded, and also we need the oversight to make sure there is the credibility there.

I think we could be doing more to encourage other agencies to consider this approach to problem solving.

We should look for ways to recognize tribal self-governance and tribal self-determination in all areas.

I couldn't agree with you more.

I think today's hearing is a good opportunity to have a conversation about Federal trust responsibility and how that looks for the future.

Thank you very much, Chairman Barrasso and Vice Chairman Tester. I really appreciate your pulling this hearing together on this incredibly important subject.

U.S. national security interests have to come first.

The resources we may export are also important for the United States and our ability to grow our economy and maintain our energy security.

If we are going to break the Russian stranglehold on energy in Eastern Europe, then we should seriously consider taking the steps to export LNG.

Making a decision about increasing exports of liquified natural gas and crude is not as simple as it sounds.

Thank you for your leadership because you have really been the biggest champion in the U.S. Congress in both the Senate and the House on this issue.

I do support those efforts. He has exercised tremendous leadership in this area.

I am alarmed by the lack of progress by NOCSAE in updating its voluntary industry helmet standards.

To the Chairman's credit, this has been a passion of his and he is strongly committed to it.

I think the work he has done has been absolutely terrific, so I fully support what he has been doing.

There is absolutely no doubt that parents want their kids to play sports, sports are a healthy activity, and I think it clearly outweighs the risk.