I unfortunately will not be able to stay through the whole hearing, as all of us have multiple hearings at multiple times.
These veterans, like all veterans, deserve our upmost respect and gratitude.
Their sacrifices, coupled with the Federal Government's trust responsibilities, require us to remedy this situation.
We need to modernize our approach to Indian education.
Senators Heidi Heitkamp and James Lankford introduced bipartisan legislation to the Senate.
These men and women who have served our Country deserve better than that, Mr. Chairman.
We want to be able to help in that process, to be able to get it to a more effective spot.
In Oklahoma, our estimate from the Department of Education is somewhere around 100,000 Native American students. The current estimate by Joh...
I know we are about to be called for votes, so let me cut to the chase.
It has now moved completely through the House again--413 to 0 this time.
I was just as frustrated last October, when that budget piece passed that included an incredible punt on Social Security Disability Insuranc...