the casino itself has become a cultural center, a place of kind of understanding culture.
Should we have that flexibility or not in the program?
This Committee is working on reauthorization of the Healthy School Lunch Program. We all want our kids to be healthy and...
Thank you.
Indian gaming is a vital part of many tribal economies.
It is complicated, because a lot of what we need to do in order to reduce flaring, what we need to do in order to move p...
So you have requested modification, but there has been no response back.
It would be a travesty for that money to disappear and not be used.
I think allowing that flexibility for each tribe to craft that appraisal scheme how they deem best would probably be the...
Can you tell me, are those kind of take it or leave it or are those negotiable?
In fact, approximately a third of all production in North Dakota actually occurs on the reservation.
I think it is critically important that we continue to put the pressure on DOI.
We have set a policy in this body and going forward of tribal self-determination.
One of the things we hear back is that they have found that the negotiating process for a cooperative agreement is compl...
I think it is important that we don't simply hit a hurdle of an absentee landowner and then back away from that process.
What a better way to encourage self-determination than to allow tribes to manage their own affairs.
I think given how difficult it is right now to get something changed in statute, we need to continue to push for accommo...
I want to follow up a little bit on the appraisal issue, because I think from what the Deputy Secretary said, it is appr...
