"I advocated for and we included in last year's funding bill $7 million for startup funding for the Department to begin consultations with tribes."
"the Tribal Law and Order Act report shows an unmet need of $3.5 billion for public safety."
"boosting the boots on the ground, if you will, across Indian country seems to be a central tenet of this request."
"I want to emphasize that word, 'required'."
"Do you like that term, tribal sovereignty fees?"
"It is really quite stunning to think that in the very modest amount of time since Lewis and Clark came to the region, how many species that they saw have become endangered or extinct."
"I think if I had a magic wand, I would, you know, throw a couple more billion dollars into these key ecosystems that are threatened."
"this is kind of a last ditch five alarm fire"
"they need to be put at the top of the list for consideration of being labeled as endangered."
"One of the goals was to develop a program that would provide labeling so you have pollinator safe according to certain standards."
"It is an incredible national parks system, but it only works if we have people staffing it."
"There are two routes to doing this. One is kind of a voluntary effort through the Xerces Society, but the other is for us to have a regulation that says you can label these plants pollinators safe if ..."