H.R. 1208... would amend the Indian Reorganization Act to clarify that the Secretary of the Interior has discretionary authority to place land into trust for any federally recognized tribe.

We are here to look at two different bills, really two different approaches that would amend the Indian Reorganization Act.

H.R. 6180... would also amend the Indian Reorganization Act to confirm the Secretary's discretionary authority to place land into trust for the Poarch Band of Creek Indians.

If you start with bad data, you are going to get bad results, no matter how well you do in between.

this process of leasing national park land for a migrant camp circumvented the rules for political purposes.

The lease must end, and it will in January.

We are in a situation where we have a lot of important hearings here, but I don't know that we are going to have any more important than the topic that we are discussing today.

I want to thank you two, the Chair and Ranking Member, for bringing this forward.

I want to thank you two, the Chair and Ranking Member, for bringing this forward.

We are in a situation where we have a lot of important hearings here, but I don't know that we are going to have any more important than the topic that we are discussing today.

the policy hasn't worked to save the spotted owl, and we can, in hindsight, decades and decades later, look back and say this was a weaponized rule just to stop management on the forests.

we made some really bad decisions three or four decades ago that are really costing us on the backside right now.

I want to thank you two, the Chair and Ranking Member, for bringing this forward.

So, I would hope that we would take another look at roads and access on the forests, and use some common sense there.

if we don't have roads, we end up spending a lot of money with tankers dropping fire retardants.

This is a topic that is not getting nearly enough attention.

We are in a situation where we have a lot of important hearings here, but I don't know that we are going to have any more important than the topic that we are discussing today.

Eradicating the cartels and their fentanyl from Indian Country should be a major priority for the FBI.