In your opinion, has the IRS lived up to the President's directive to implement Executive Order 13175 regarding the Federal agency's consultation with Indian tribes?

I maintain that none of the funds I have described should be taxable, but the IRS must explain why it thinks certain trust payments are taxable while the private ones are not.

I am very frustrated with the 'forked tongue' approach, with the concept that we can have a settlement and a possibility--now we send out a notice saying that 55 are not going to be taxed but those that have trust funds are going to be…

The tribes worked all these years under the understanding that they would have a trust and when they distributed primarily interest from the capital of the trust to their members it would be nontaxable income.

It would be a grave injustice to tax revenues originating from lands held for the exclusive use and benefit of American Indians who secured their property at great cost.

In the Yakama Nation's opinion, IRS has not lived up to the proper Executive Order of consultation with the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation.

And this is one of the poor things about this body right now. We do have to go vote.

I have always found there is a way to solve a problem.

That is not proper consultation.

the inoperability and total corruption of the Interior Department over the years cost the tribes a great deal of money.

Today the Subcommittee will review the Federal government's controversial tax treatment of non-gaming per capita payments distributed by Indian tribes to their enrolled members.

I will damn well subpoena somebody and find out about it.

If the IRS doesn't change its attitude--and I hate to ask this because it makes some lawyer some money--are you prepared to litigate?

there should be a watchdog so we don't have the same problem.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I apologize to my good friends, but this has to be a two-way street-- bipartisan--because I do believe that Jerry was an example of the Congress that I knew and loved where we worked together to solve…

I have complaints. And there is a reason those complaints are coming forth.

That is wrong with our Government today, Mr. Chairman. We are not being run by a legislative process.

If you don't do it, I will ask for a GAO report, just to make sure that there is some understanding.

my biggest concern, Mr. Chairman, is I have watched over the years agencies that lose contact with what they are trying to do through--I call it gobbledygook.

You have a responsibility to those you are serving, to make sure it works correctly.

I want to thank the gentleman from California. Mr. Farr has been one of the leaders who has been concerned with the oceans, and this debris bill is crucially important to the State of California and especially to Alaska. Mr. Farr came to…

I urge passage of this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Alaska (Mr. Young) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill, H.R…

This is a simple amendment. It addresses the roadless areas in national forests but, specifically, in Alaska. It does not overturn the roadless areas. This is an attempt, as previously stated in this Congress, that highly mineralized areas…

I thank the gentleman. Again, this is specific for an area of rare Earth that's for the future of this Nation. This amendment should be adopted, and I urge a ``yes'' on my amendment. I reserve the balance of my time.

One last comment. He says there is no restriction and that we can go ahead and mine this Earth. You can't develop it. It's that simple. All exploration had to be done by helicopter. There was no access by road. To develop it, we must have…