mr. schatz: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from hawaii. mr. schatz: thank you, mr. president. the senate has a solemn duty to exercise and fulfill u.s. federal trust responsibilities. this duty is the guiding principle for all of our work on behalf of american indians, alaska natives, and native hawaiians. so as the chairman of the senate committee on indian affairs, it's my job to prioritize and push tribal and native communities' legislative priorities towards the finish line and ultimately to actually enact legislation. the indian affairs committee has a strong tradition of bipartisanship going back decades. committee members on both sides of the aisle routinely work together to achieve their own native communities' goals. when there are disagreements, we do everything we can to work them out internally and to find common ground so that members aren't forced to air their disagreements when the bills get to the floor. in fact, just last night, the senate passed eight indian affai

mr. schatz woods, so they can see that america is talking about these things. i am very very sorry that the european union isn't doing something similar to what you are doing. i am not aware of this being done in brussels. that is the first point. if they can start, they are doing great things but few people know about it. >> what should be their role? >> they should work you, and they should work together to promote reconciliation in northern ireland. you should be, first of all, fund of things like education and victim support. secondly, opening up business in america and europe for investment because forget, and trading arrangements, we will have of the protocol, they're are open to both markets. >> does the eu not support framework for guaranteeing human rights, life quality, and ease of accord? obviously, there are a whole lot of issues in part of that would security checkpoints to the other elements of the single market, customs union, 300 mile order that has effectively disappeared. how are things at the border these days? >> certainly, the border in ire