Through treaties and Federal statutes, the Federal Government has assumed the responsibility of providing healthcare for American Indians and Alaska Natives.

Congress must live up to its treaty commitments, bring IHS facilities to modern standards, and increase the funding.

We could have done more if we were at the right place at the right time, and we didn't know where to be at the right place at the right time.

We cannot run health facilities and health programs on uncertain budgets.

we cannot only help our food security, but we can create jobs and opportunities, and allow people to live the American dream.

I am honored to have represented irrigation districts, municipalities, counties, farmers, ranchers throughout my legal career.

I think that is what we will see if we invest in our infrastructure the way that our forefathers did.

They created those projects not just for themselves, but they created those projects for us to this day.

there isn't morality in scarcity, yet that seems to be what the other side continues to push.

Every single time they proved people like you absolutely wrong.

I commend you on the work that you do. I am glad that you are not naysayers.

I am here to tell you that we do. And there are many places in Wyoming where we could build such projects.

I appreciate your comment that you are eminently capable of making your own decisions. I think that is absolutely correct, and that is why we are here to make sure that you can.

I want to thank Ranking Member Leger Fernandez, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. LaMalfa, Mrs. Gonzalez-Colon, and Mr. Sablan for their support of H.R. 1246.

Today, we are meeting to consider two bills I've introduced to ensure all tribes have access to economic tools.

H.R. 1532 is quite simple and straightforward, and I would assume that our title insurance companies could read that and understand it.

It is unfortunate that we even need to consider my legislation here today, but we have learned not to trust the courts to follow the Endangered Species Act.

So, that would be considered an adequate regulatory mechanism, wouldn't it?

So, those are the kinds of things that are in place with these recovery plans to ensure that the numbers don't go below what is required.

If Congresswoman Hageman's bill passes and returns management to the states, hunters in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho may eventually be used to manage grizzly populations using tightly controlled and carefully regulated hunting.

Grizzly bears, by all objective scientific measures, have been fully-recovered from 'Threatened' status since 2003.

And in Idaho, in Montana, they have over 1,000 Canadian gray wolves in each of those states.

That is all right. Thank you, Madam Chair.

In closing, grizzly bears met and greatly exceeded all federal and state population recovery goals 20 years ago.

I have never seen a recovery plan that does not include some kind of a backstop that would protect a recovered species.