James Whittier Parker: “I personally want a clean unfunded mandates bill. I think it is what we need, and I believe the American people have let…”

Even though the tax cuts that we are giving are not as great as they should be, I think they are kind of like popcorn. You just cannot eat just a little. When the American people just get a touch of what it is like for the Federal…

I submit that we have failed miserably. The status quo that we are talking about today says that what we want to do is continue the same process, the same path we have been walking down, and if we continue to do that, we are going to get…

We do not achieve the purpose that we are looking for if we penalize individual tribes out there that have been trying to do what we ask them to do. We have changed the rules on them again. It is not the first time the Federal Government…

I have to tell the gentleman, it will mean a difference of $949,000 a year. That is a massive amount of impact.