The BIA's recent approval, some say, rubber-stamp, of certain trust land applications over the objections of other tribes...

Spokane is against it, the Air Force should be adamantly against it.

I think there has been, not because of Dr. Washburn, I think over the years there are people with very large sums of money that see a way of taking advantage of certain tribes.

I believe that could be done. Because you and I know how regulations work. I hate them.

I don't understand it. I mean, again, the market can only bear so much.

Nobody, including Cathy McMorris, supports this program.

I have always been a strong advocate of Indian gaming.

If we keep doing this off-reservation gambling, you keep approving them, eventually the States are going to say, 'The hell with it. We will legalize gambling.'

It should be the intention of this committee to consider reforming Federal gaming policy...

The passage of a House bill this week to block off-reservation casinos in Phoenix is a sign of popular support...

Doctor, for your information, all the good work the House--it is sort of like the Marine Corps and the Army.

It appears that your approval of this project minimizes, ignores the negative impacts of neighboring tribes.

Would your so-called legal group like to help us as we rewrite a piece of legislation to clarify this issue?

I think you are aware of it. Don't do that, because here comes the guy out of Illinois, financing the whole project, has a small tribe that is going to move into an existing casino area.

I don't want this proliferation of casinos because eventually, I think the States... will legalize the whole thing.

[t]he passage of a House bill this week to block an off-reservation casino in Phoenix is a sign of popular support for taking the off-reservation gaming rubber stamp away from the administration, and letting Congress make decisions…

This is not the way our government should talk.

You are supposed to be for the little guy. You are for big government.

Any time our government starts doing that without due process of the law, we have lost our government.

the idea that I have a bunch of Brits making money off the industry telling me that my Alaskan salmon are not sustainable and Wal-Mart doesn't sell it, is dead wrong when it is sustainable and has been sustainable.

it is dead wrong what is happening here, and I am deeply offended by Wal-Mart, the Chinese-owned company.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and this is a subject I am quite interested in.

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