"I am committed to upholding the President's pledge to work directly with American leaders to fulfill our treaty and trust obligations. One of the major things that we have done is to move forward with the authorization of the Navajo and Gallup water supply project. That project was recently authorized in legislation signed by President Obama. It will provide a reliable water supply to a quarter of a million people, 250,000 people in the eastern portion of the Navajo nation, to the city of Gallup and to the Jicarilla Apache Nation. An estimated 70,000 Navajo Indians today are without access to running water and residents of part of the Navajo Nation have had to haul water for generations. This is a vital project, something that is very important our Native American neighbors and citizens and also very important to the senators and members of congress from New Mexico as well as Arizona. I'm looking very much forward to working on this project and making it a reality."