Thank you, Madam Chair.

I am guessing if it was written the right way, you might get it through, and then we will just see who supports Indian Country and who doesn't.

Give us the stuff that you think has been in the hopper for however long.

I have been a big believer in lethal aid to Ukraine to get Russia's attention.

We have to go to the root of the problem.

The funding that the President wanted to cut was wrong.

The wall is a 14th century solution that is not going to stop those people.

How does it get to be $750 a day?

you don't get much worse, I think, as far as government policy doing things like this.

this is certainly a sad stain in our Nation's history of what has happened with this period, and we are not through it yet.

I think that is a very fair question. I asked you 9 days ago.

How is that justifiable?

people back home still, to this day, cannot understand how we spend $750 a day to house children for really long periods of time.

Thank you for putting it delicately.

I am not a guy who says more money is the answer to everything, but I am also the guy who says I think the last resource administration was the Teddy Roosevelt Administration.

What we spend on natural resources as a part of the Federal budget is not extravagant or even a lot, and yet we continue to watch the funding trends go down.

I would just like to associate myself with your remarks.

Help me. Why are all of the private sector people being told, 'Figure out a way to launder your money,' but yet the government's political subdivisions are saying, 'Pay the IRS in cash'?

I am kind of thinking one of the things we need to look at is we've got to start building some fences around that money.

I am just waiting for the day when there is somebody on the panel from Nevada, which, by the way, does not stand for some kind of skunk or----

We want to talk to you about it, what's going on my neck of the woods, that sort of stuff, and so I think regardless of where you think we ought to be or what, the agency has been phenomenally cooperative and a standout in my experience in…

I think now, with the change of the leadership with this House, I think you all have a much stronger voice in your negotiations with the Senate.

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Thank you for the fact that you have been more than forthcoming in terms of making your different folks available for getting familiar with what is going on.

I think we need to talk about that because, quite frankly, I know it is a source of some frustration for you guys too.