The issues presented in these bills are important to Indian Country and reflect our shared priorities on this Committee.

We are concerned about the message that it may send by condoning separate treatment of different Native communities within the United States.

I would be less than honest with you if I did not tell you that this budget was a wreck.

The SRS is critical there, of course, because the Federal Government does not pay taxes.

I continue to have concern about the Service's ability to effectively recruit and retain qualified staff.

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?

the reason is, is under Federal law, you are required to ban a pesticide if you cannot prove with reasonable certainty that the pesticide is safe.

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

So we need to make sure that we try to do the very best and I think that is the same theme that Senator Murkowski has pushed here today.

I would urge you on the available science and data to act quickly.

what is the official Trump administration position on accepting the scientific evidence that manmade climate change is occurring?

I know you dismiss the problem of climate change, but these programs are about the air we breathe and having clean air.