You have the power to do the right thing.

It is time for Congress to finish what it started in 1956 and extend full recognition to the Lumbee Tribe.

I believe that we must do more to support the rights of all Native Americans.

I think, Senator Kaine, every time I see him, brings up how important this legislation is.

I would like to announce that the Committee on Indian Affairs will meet during the session of the Senate on October 30, 2013, in room SD-628 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, at 2:30 p.m., to consider the following legislation: S…

I would like to announce that the Committee on Indian Affairs will meet during the session of the Senate on October 30, 2013, in room SD-628 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, at 2:30 p.m., to conduct a hearing to receive testimony on…

The answer when you lose a case in the Supreme Court is to honor the ruling, not look for a way to get around it.

In short, in the wake of the Ramah and Arctic Slope decisions, contract support costs should be fully funded at $617 million.

This is rank discrimination--racial discrimination--and it must stop.

If alive today, Teddy Roosevelt, who started the National Refuge System, would no longer be able to ride his horse on most of them.

If any proposal is going to be advanced to alter our contract rights under the Indian Self-Determination Act, it should be done through an open and transparent process.

The agency and the Department are not proposing to cut off the contract rights of its many non-Indian contractors, and it should not treat Indian contractors any differently.

We do look forward to working with Interior Secretary Sally Jewell in the hopes that America's Great Outdoors once again are for all Americans.

My amendment would be to open up government.

We're getting real stories fed back to us by constituents and those constituents are suffering greatly.

It's unbelievable to me that we're sitting here and that you have to come and do this instead of being able to do the job that is already dangerous and treacherous to begin with.

They've been cut back 35 percent and they have a very complex set of missions.

These really are important issues on the impact that this shutdown is having on the American people.

Well, my understanding is that we, from an operational perspective, even though I would consider that preservation of life...

I really wish that our colleagues on the other side of the dais here would be here.

I think the thing that people are missing here in DC is that everybody is at risk in the U.S. economy.

I think what we are doing right now is reckless.

Last time we had this discussion about whether we were going to default or not, the stock market dropped 20 percent.

I would like to announce that the Committee on Indian Affairs will meet during the session of the Senate on September 18, 2013, in room SD-628 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, at 2:30 p.m., to conduct a business meeting to authorize…

I have worked on middle class economic security policies for most of my career and understand how very real that pressure can be on families.