Eni Faleomavaega: “I'd like to do a dialogue here. I'm quite sure that our good friend, the senior ranking member from Alaska, as well as…”

“I'd like to do a dialogue here. I'm quite sure that our good friend, the senior ranking member from Alaska, as well as our chairman, previously, this House has passed recognition of the Lumbee people, the Indians, I think twice already in the time when even former Congressman Charlie Rose was a Member of this great institution. And if I recall, I would like to ask the gentleman, it did pass the House of Representatives. But what happened afterwards? Twice. And then it was referred to the Senate. Maybe my colleagues, our colleagues need to know, to find out what happened when it went to the Senate. Twice we've passed this legislation and when it was referred to the Senate, what happened?”