I just want to say at the outset since this is our first forestry hearing that I am very much looking forward to working with you on these issues.
Termination era policies are a shameful part of American history with long standing impact on the nation's first peoples...
I look forward to that cooperation to finally close the book on this and give the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians...
These tribes deserve the right to exercise their tribal sovereignty, to grow an economy, support and protect tribal memb...
This account that you have just given provides a real wakeup call to this committee, because this is something, colleagu...
There is wide consensus that children and youth, especially young children, are best served in a family setting.
I am appreciative of working with Senator Grassley on the caucus.
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...
It would have been more work for the bureaucracy.
As the title of this hearing suggests, foster care group homes are no place to grow up.
This can be done in a bipartisan way, colleagues.