and i say so in the report, quite sensibly and understandably took an interest in this high visibility prosecution of a senior sitting united states senator. it would, in my judgment and a number of the same party as the the administration. administration. that was prosecuted. indeed. so, in my view, it would be completely counter intuitive if the assistant general hadn t taken a serious interest in the matter. i think, however, as we also say, that paradoxically that interest to supervise and make sure things were done right, put in prosecutor to serve as lead counsel whom he thought was better equipped than the existing team of prosecutors contributed to the morale problems, contributed to brendan mars having decided, because they put me in here and created all these morale problems, i don t want to make anybody i m going to make myself as little as possible, as she put it, and i m just going to do my job. i m going to cross examine witnesses. i m going to mak
number one, verify whether or not the individual is an enrolled member of the tribe before we proceed with a collection action. if they are enrolled member with the tribe, then we do go ahead and utilize the tribal court system for all collection actions. if we are dealing with the trust property issue, that is a piece where you know up front that the individual is a native american within the reservation. you have to go through a fairly detailed application process, and approval by the dia or their delegated authority before you can perfect a mortgage on trust property. fortunately we have not had to look at any collection actions on trust property or any real estate at this point, so we feel fairly good about that. but if we do come into a point that we have to look at a collection action on trust property, that will go through the tribal court system. senator cochran. thank you very much, mr. chairman. mr. ols