"There are tough challenges that our Native American communities face across the country and they include the issues of education, we provide education to about 45,000 children through the BIE (Bureau of Indian Education) in the Department of Interior. We have tough issues in healthcare on the Indian reservations and we need to work closely with Tom Daschle at HHS (Health and Human Services) and others to make sure that we are doing more for healthcare on Indian reservations. We need to deal with the issue of lawlessness which is rampant in many of the Indian reservations around the country and I intend to use my own law enforcement background to work with the kind of partnerships that hopefully will bring back a more, a sense of law with regard to Indian country."