This is an old tactic Interior has used for years - try to divide and conquer. Congress should be very upset.

This is a cruel effort to inflict even more pain on the victims of the government's long-acknowledged misbehavior. I have never seen a more blatant and transparent attempt to politicize this case in order to divide and conquer Indian country.

This is totally unreal. Sometimes I think the department's behavior has deteriorated to the bottom of the basement, and things like this happen, and I think it's gone to the fiery bowels of the earth.

The senator is from Montana, but has never taken an interest in it.

This young person was so ignorant to us, it was so bad. He told me, ?We ought to be charging you for the handling of this money.' I almost jumped across the table.

Subsidies were instituted that are now being used to pay telephone bills. That strikes me as something that Congress certainly did not have in mind when it passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996.