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Resurrecting this tribal territorial sovereignty approach should be the urgent focus of any new labor law reform efforts.

The NLRB's decision in the San Manuel case to override tribal authority is an outrage.

Tribal self-determination has long been the goal of federal Indian policy.

H.R. 2335 will respect Indian nation governments as other governments are respected.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I appreciate this hearing. It is timely given it is the second anniversary of the Dodd-Frank and we need to look at these reforms and the related rules and see how they impact people on the ground.

So is that more of an informational-type role that you fulfill with the courts. Are you summoned in a manner?

It is timely given it is the second anniversary of the Dodd-Frank and we need to look at these reforms.

I guess my fear is, along the lines of what Senator Smith said, if you introduce more players--and some of these players are hard to find even to clear the rights.

I believe in the free market, whose instincts are that deregulation is a good, solid, preferred approach.

Make no mistake. Retransmission consent was and is a construct of lobbyists and politicians.

We need to be able to plan. We need to know what the rules are going to be.

I hope that we can find 21st century solutions to 21st century challenges.

The true threat and the hurt is felt at home by these local and small governments who are bearing the cost of that.

If we are going to have Federal land in this country, then the Federal Government needs to maintain it.

It underlies the importance of this issue that we have people on both sides of the aisle that are looking to find a solution.

Even if you took the $18 million number--I was running some numbers here while I was sitting--it appears to me that what has actually been treated and addressed on Forest Service land is less than 2 percent of the lands that you have…

I have plenty of time for this because this is a very important issue for us, so I thank you for yielding to me and allowing me the opportunity to ask a few questions and to make an opening statement.

The repeal of Jackson-Vanik, yes.