H.R. 2362, 'The Indian Tribal Trade and Investment Demonstration Project Act of 2011,' creates a pilot project for tribes to participate in economic business development with private entities from the Republic of Turkey.

regulations beget regulations beget more regulations beget more regulations

Both of these bills will help tribal governments cut through the bureaucratic red tape and allow the tribes to lease their lands without approval of the Secretary of the Interior.

that puts a terrible burden on the tribes, and it is mostly not justified; it is somebody making work.

I am glad Mr. Black--by the way, I am not going to pick on you because I think you are trying--you are just in a morass of bureaucracy, and if we can help you out with this legislation, I will gladly do that.

H.R. 205, entitled 'The HEARTH Act of 2011,' amends the long-term Indian leasing acts so tribes can lease their lands for any non-mineral development.

This is a classic example of Washington trying to solve a problem that does not exist.

The result of the National Ocean Policy creates a new fisheries regulatory process that competes with and threatens to supersede the Magnuson-Stevens Act.

I still want to know what dancing school that NOAA goes to. I have never seen anybody dance around the answers.

This is another overreach by the Federal Government 'solving' a problem that doesn't exist.

I again urge the passage of this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time.

We absolutely support the provisions of H.R. 2714 that assist us in meeting our goals of creating long-term economic opportunities for our tribal members.

I have no further requests for time, 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 bill would transfer title to 422 acres of land from the Fish and Wildlife Service to the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission. The commission has been effectively managing this property since 1998 under a Memorandum of…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I want to begin by thanking Congressman Calvert for introducing this bill to designate a memorial in honor of the over 150,000 current and former members of the Armed Forces who have…

I have no further requests for time, 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…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, H.R. 295 would use existing authorized appropriations in the Hydrographic Survey Improvement Act of 1998 for fiscal year 2012 to fund surveys and mapping activities in the Arctic…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, H.R. 441, the Kantishna Hills Renewable Energy Act, would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue permits for a microhydro project within a nonwilderness area of Denali…

In deference to my good friend Mr. Dingell, let's go ahead and have him testify to get him going on his way.

We would like to thank Congressman Young for the introduction of H.R. 2714.

You have more, 78 million acres of land in my State of refuge. I am not confident you are handling it the way you should.

Let's do something now. And that is why I have to change the law, because you can't do it right now.

There has to be a management concept. Why I introduced this bill is for a management concept.

How do you think it makes a person feel that lives there all their life and have some smart-ass from Massachusetts come up there and tell them how they should live?

If we keep waiting around and have some more discussions... there won't be anything left for any subsistence at all.