"Tribal Nations are not stakeholders. A stakeholder is a member of the public. Tribal Nations are nations."
"We need to have government-to-government relationships."
"It needs to be decolonized, this process. So we need to all sit at the table as equals."
"Thank you so much to the Chair and Ranking Member, and thank you to the witnesses for your testimony and your expertise."
"I look forward to working with you, your question to Dr. Spinrad, let me know, and I'm happy to collaborate again."
"I thought the comment was unnecessarily confrontational. We are here to have a debate about policy, not personal attacks."
"We can help address the need for emergency food bank support by providing an additional $900 million for food purchases through TEFAP."
"Prepared statement of."
"Poverty is not inevitable in this country."
"I am hopeful that we can find common ground and discuss the shared policy goals."
"This is a bipartisan legislation with no intention of removing faith-based organizations from participation."
"The CSBG Program has a long legacy of reducing poverty in our communities, but we must not neglect the program's future."