Thank you. Mr. Cameron, in the testimony you said in response to the feedback that the agency received from tribes, that the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Bureau of Indian Education, the Office of Special Trustee for American Indians would be left out of the reorganization.
Grijalva questions the exclusion of tribal agencies from reorganization plans.
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