mr. chairman, thank you. sen. schatz: thank you. senator lujan. sen. lujan: mr.hairman, thank you very much. vice chair murkowski, thank you both for holding this important hearing today to examine the legacy of federal indian boarding school policies and support legislation that moves us in the right direction. i also want to say thank you and welcome to our friend secretary deb haaland. it's an honor to call her a friend and a mentor and to see the tremendous work that you are doing. i will be forever moved by you. i also want to welcome some students from new mexico that i had the honor of meeting with earlier and i believe the secretary did as well from the santa fe indian school and princeton university's summer policy academy. they're led by a dear friend of mine, the former governor of coach d pueblo, regis pecos preston sanchez, who is the co counsel and also the justice director and has also been involved with with many issues and titles. but karen aguilar, amber garcia, and lee mountain, i want to thank each and every one of you for being with us today

and stop alternative accommodation being found for people being kept at manston, but i think what mr schatzalso likely to be disrupted. ahead of the men's football world cup, prince william has been discussing mental health with england players harry kane and declan rice. they hope their open conversation will help highlight the importance of supporting mental wellbeing. our royal correspondent daniela relph has more. two footballers and one royal fan, who opened up about the challenges of supporting england. you know, handling some of those really disappointing england results of the past, that was hard. i found that really difficult because again, the same euphoria that we had comes crashing down and whittles away, and that's quite hard to take because you feel all on a high, you feel together and then suddenly normal life just gets back on again and it's like, where did that all go? was that real, what happened, and how do i get that feeling back? and yet football has that ability to just put it all on a plate for you and suddenly take it all away. the prince of wales has spoken to a num

mr. chairman. senator menendez: senator schatz. senator schatz: thank you, ambassador, for willing to serve this country in incredibly difficult circumstances. i want to follow up on something senator shaheen was talking about and senator portman. i want you to describe the information environment in russia? i guess the most basic question is, do you think the russian people know that they are losing? ms. tracy: senator, thank you. my impression is that there are certainly russians who have sought out access to outside sources of information to be able to more accurately gauge what is happening in terms of russia's war on ukraine. but when you look at the polling that takes place inside of russia and i think some of it is pretty good and pretty credible, there are still many russians who, because of the years of propaganda, are still persuaded that this is a just cause. although the rationales keep changing. senator schatz: and whatever mistakes that have been made are tactical or a general's fault or about equipping and training a

mr. schatz: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from had i i had. mr. schatz: far with it for me to delay the passage of this law, which i know has been worked on by native people and staffers for many, many years, i wanted to make my private commitment to the senator from alaska, the vice chair of the committee, we are absolutely committed one way or another to passing the don young lands package. i think want to make it clear on the floor. thank you. the presiding officer: is there objection? mr. heinrich: mr. president, through the chair, i just want to take a moment to articulate the same commitment publicly, and we look forward to working with my colleague from alaska, who's been so helpful in putting the stop act to a successful resolution. i look forward to working with letter to get the don young package moved as well. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. energy independent, to secure our borders. the what if we cannot get our work done now, the outgoing majority do not want to work with this, we can get this done in january as w