These tribes deserve the right to exercise their tribal sovereignty, to grow an economy, support and protect tribal members.
I look forward to that cooperation to finally close the book on this and give the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians...
Termination era policies are a shameful part of American history with long standing impact on the nation's first peoples...
I want you to know that I am going to make sure, as we talk about this, that we are going to do this in a bipartisan way...
This account that you have just given provides a real wakeup call to this committee, because this is something, colleagu...
It should not have happened.
You and Senator Hatch, in my view, have been real leaders on this topic, and I am very grateful.
I am appreciative of working with Senator Grassley on the caucus.
As the title of this hearing suggests, foster care group homes are no place to grow up.
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has drafted legislation that would bolster funding for prevention and services to families.
It would have been more work for the bureaucracy.