Will you ensure this ongoing joint effort between BIA and BLM continues so that we strike a balance between adequately protecting Chaco and allowing for responsible development and, above all, ensure that tribes are intimately involved in…

It has been mentioned several times about health care being a top and essential priority.

I would hope whoever the President is, Americans would return to the tradition that we've had of respectful and robust public debate. That's something becoming increasingly rare.

I hope we exempt the Interior Department and these BIA activities.

I urged you to be a strong advocate for Indian Country.

Not only has the embargo been a complete failure, but it continues to give Cubans an excuse for the poor state of their economy.

That's why I'm pleased that my Spectrum Challenge Prize Act has been approved by this committee.

The Spectrum Pipeline Act made $500 million of existing money available for R&D and pilot projects.

Demagogues like Maduro need a scapegoat, and now the U.S. sanctions are his scapegoat.

The Venezuelan people, many who oppose the government, are suffering. They are going without food, without medicine, without power, without the essentials.

I did not vote in favor of increased sanctions against Venezuela. I thought then and I believe now they are counterproductive and could lead to further entrenchment of the current Venezuelan regime.

I would like to just read a couple of paragraphs from the letter. On behalf of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), the oldest, largest, and most representative American Indian and Alaskan Native organization serving the broad…