Its infancy in terms of understanding, but it gives you the breadth of the impact Climate Change can have on our lives and particularly on tribal nations. In terms of what were doing concerning some of the steps were taking on the Climate Action plan that the president developed is i think as you all know and secretary jewell mentioned is weve moved forward with the Clean Power Plan which is our plan to regulate Carbon Pollution from our live resources which are our power plants. We have had consultation with our tribes well in advance of any rule. Its been an outreach effort we have undertaking that is, i think, as large as the issue that were trying to tackle. And we look forward to continuing those conversations because in the end what we realize is that one of the Biggest Challenges we face with climate is either too much water or too little water. And the joy i have when i come to tribal meetings is to have you focus so heavily on water issues, because in many other areas they thi
I hope everyone is clear on that. Probljectsworking on on islam . No. Education reform. We have not ventured into any social stuff or into too much Foreign Policy type things, so nothing on islam currently. Any thoughts on why so many wealthy entrepreneurs are liberal . I do not know. In Silicon Valley, they kind of our commonlaw but i do not know if entrepreneurs are liberal. It seems like many businessmen to come cronies of government. You see many people make the thomas and is in turn where they enter as entrepreneurs and become political entrepreneurs. Uber. Ee that with h six months ago we were cheering them, but they have totally made the turn to go a political entrepreneur. After they go into these cities, they start to cut deals with local governments where they make regulations, and if they them,ford to adhere to you see a lot of these may starturs, they out one way, but they are in it for their business first and foremost. I do not fault them for, but i do not like using gove
Small business administration, housing, transportation, or any other agency, should sit together with Indian Tribes to opportunities the you are sharing with us. A lot of tribes depend on gaming. We need to expand our opportunities and Economic Development. That is one reason why we announced 20,000 to encourage organizations to do a better job of working with tribal leaders to get the word out of various programs. A program is mentioned about waiving fees on small loans. We decided to create a small loan, and micro loan, program for agricultural reducers. Up to 50,000, low interest rate, low security. We need to make sure folks are aware of them. The 2501 program is one way of doing that. We had a conference recently which was another opportunity us to get out the word. That was a very good comment. We need to get more outreach. Our time is up. Like i said in my opening comments, there is never a Marshall Plan for Indian Country. The leaders in front of you represent individuals that
Process on medicaid. That something where focused districts trying to solve these problems by themselves when the on on a statebystate basis. We been working with the states problems are much more common throughout the year to reduce in than unique, everybody trying to some cases what were the blogs reinvent the wheel and nothing that resulted from last year, gets answered. Working to do two things. Captain styles helps us maintain one, reduction of the backlogs that existed in a number of states, and each state has that privacy and share important ada. It is a fine line there trying blogs for different reasons, to walk. Generally speaking. Some different reasons. , to share best sureocus has been to make that were getting rid of that back wall, and to improve the process of communication between practices and stop what doesnt and the system between. Work. I could not support that more. We have made progress. It is a place where we need to thank you. Continue to focus and its something
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