i was born and raised along the san juan river in shiprock. years ago when i was a little boy we saw hundreds of fish, dead fish floweding down the river. as boys, we jumped in the river, catching the dying fish. i had been asking for years why those fish were dead. i did not get an answer until august 13 when investigator mccarthy came to visit our nation. 1.5 million gallons of radium 226 spilled from the uranium mill site. we not only swam in that radioactive water but my brothers ate the contaminated fish. i'm asking members of these two committees to not allow history to repeat itself. hold the epa accountable for the toxic snail occurred on august 5 about a month and a half ago. don't let them get away with their negligence. our people are suffering. much of the organic crops have been lost. our livestocks are penned up. our farmers and ranchers are exhausted from hauling water. our children are afraid of the river. we have been told by the epa that cleanup will take decades. this is what we will have to live with for years to come so to

. ♪ ♪ betty: this is shiprock. it is norwegian cruise lines' solution to netting younger cruisers.the whole have a lot of money to spend. $1.3 trillion of it. and a piece of that demographic could help the industry sail back into double-digit profit margins. the clia, which is obviously the cruising industry group, i mean, they have came out with numbers, and they say that the average cruiser is about 50 years old, makes over $100,000, white, and generally an affluent traveler. but they are all, they are essentially that demographic so it's not very diverse. richard: well, i think that again, that is part of what we need to help explain because the diversity is growing dramatically, both in ethnicity, in age. betty: some of the reports out about the ship say that, you know, the reason why it is such a game-changer, or it is at least something that people are excited about and getting a lot of press, is that it's catering towards the millennials, right? the younger travelers. so is this an attempt essentially, a very big attempt, to get the 20-year-olds and 30-year-olds on your ship

i lived not too far from shiprock. like i say, there is an intense investment here on the part of these tribes. this is there homeland. sometimes we forget that they are a sovereign nation, and we have a huge responsibility to fix what we have exacerbated. maybe we did not create it, but we certainly exacerbated the problem and need to step up in a big way and meet our obligations. i yield back. >> i now recognize the gentleman california for five minutes. >> ms. miss mccarthy, the epa posted videos to its website taken by on-site contractors at the spill emerging out of the mine as it happened. on september 9 epa assistant administrator status testified before the house science committee on these videos.videos. i think we have a clip of that testimony. >> according to the website, ii want you to look over on the far right-hand side there, epa removed profanity contained in the audio of the video and obscured visible license plates for privacy purposes. then it ends with this: epa did not edit the videos in any other w

i was born and raised along the river in shiprock. years ago we saw hundreds of dead fish floating down the river. as boys we jumped in the river catching the dying fish. i have been asking for years why they were dead. i did not get an answer until august 13 when administrator mccarthy came to visit our nation. 1.5 million gallons of radium tutus build from the site located in my hometown. we not only swam in that radioactive water, but my brothers eight the contaminated fish. i am asking this committee to not allow history to repeat itself and told the epa accountable for the toxic spill that occurred on august 5. do not let them get away with negligence. our people are suffering. much of the crops of been lost, livestock is pinned up , ranchers are exhausted from hauling water, children are afraid of the water. we are told that cleanup will take decades. today we come to ask for help. the white house is silent. fema, doi, and other federal agencies are being told to not use there own resources to help us. we have not seen any promi

i lived not too far from shiprock.ike i say, there is an intense investment here on the part of these tribes. this is there homeland. sometimes we forget that they are a sovereign nation, and we have a huge responsibility to fix what we have exacerbated. maybe we did not create it, but we certainly exacerbated the problem and need to step up in a big way and meet our obligations. i yield back. >> i now recognize the gentleman california for five minutes. >> ms. miss mccarthy, the epa posted videos to its website taken by on-site contractors at the spill emerging out of the mine as it happened. on september 9 epa assistant administrator status testified before the house science committee on these videos.videos. i think we have a clip of that testimony. >> according to the website, ii want you to look over on the far right-hand side there, epa removed profanity contained in the audio of the video and obscured visible license plates for privacy purposes. then it ends with this: epa did not edit the videos in any other way