Will you commit to making sure that Oregon and other states that don't have their own Green Banks can still have access to the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund?

I am very pleased to see the proposal for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.

Your position as the first Native American Cabinet Secretary is historic.

this is kind of a last ditch five alarm fire

About ten miles from my house, there is a Maya Lin designed bird blind on the Columbia River, where Lewis and Clark camped.

We can no longer view these villains as natural disasters, what they really are, are human-caused unnatural disasters.

We found the three C's, if you will. We found the cartels. We found the corruption, and we found the climate change.

In Vietnam we really wanted to reinforce support for the Leahy programs to heal the wounds of war.

it is as bad as coal.

I think it would be very significant to the tribe.

This subcommittee will come to order.

boosting the boots on the ground, if you will, across Indian country seems to be a central tenet of this request.

Yeah, absolutely. We are determined to try to prevent that fire borrowing, which is why we are keeping the window open for a supplemental of another $450 million.

About ten miles from my house, there is a Maya Lin designed bird blind on the Columbia River, where Lewis and Clark camped.

I want to emphasize that word, 'required'.

Those two species were like the core of the diet that supported the tribes from time immemorial.

I want to thank Congress for the Fire Fix, because it certainly helped in terms of limiting our ability.

It is exciting, as someone who grew up during the Vietnam War, to see the positive relationship that we now have with Vietnam, and hoping to build on that.

We must recognize as a Congress that non-defense funding is just as important as defense spending.

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.

Thank you Chairman Jeff Merkley, Ranking Member Lisa Murkowski, and Members of the subcommittee for your leadership to reduce pollution in rivers, improve clean water access, safeguard public drinking water supplies.

I encourage you to persist aggressively, given the consequences of failure, and we certainly have a deeply entrenched company, or companies, determined to keep addicting children.

The Budget is a historic step and the start of an ongoing conversation with Tribes to ensure the IHS system is meeting the healthcare needs in Indian Country.

It is essential. People can't take jobs if they can't afford a place to live.

The amount of fossils that can be burned by humankind across the globe, and keep us below 1.5 degrees centigrade, is microscopic now.