Dan Boren: “Congress has to act to create sovereign self determined tribes. If we do that, we are in good shape.”

We need to build a budget that creates jobs and opportunities for tribal nations without creating more bureaucratic regulation.

I want to commend you both for coming together and sponsoring a single bill to provide for the distribution of these funds.

The BIA is widely resented for inefficiency, stonewalling, and micromanaging tribal affairs.

I strongly believe that placing additional undue barriers for tribal energy development is unwise, it is also counterproductive.