"While many believe that IHS is underfunded, from my standpoint, investing more taxpayer money into a dysfunctional system will only compound the problem."
"For years, tribal members in my home State of South Dakota have dealt with unimaginable horrors in dealing with IHS facilities."
"I want to start by thanking Chairman Hoeven, Vice Chairman Udall, and members of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs for their dedicated service to the Native American communities."
"Today, I am introducing my bill, S. 465, to provide for a comprehensive assessment of the Indian Health Service."
"some of those changes were also asked back in 2012, and they were not effectuated."
"If the question is what has changed since 2015, what we have seen changed is a new Administration, what we have since changed is a new agenda by this Administration to see to it that the economy actua..."
"I support the President's agenda to pursue trade policies to create American jobs and to promote U.S. businesses."
"If we have within our abilities the opportunity to lay out a plan in which there is not just an auditable but a review process that could be put in place with assurances of the follow-through, we are ..."
"We are not focusing on going after the guys who are actually causing the problems for everybody else."
"I think it is important that we recognize that there is a standard of security which has to be imposed."
"we are facing, in my opinion, a Federal forest management crisis."