Raúl Grijalva: “I would encourage you to come up with a plan for those unallocated acres.”

Mr. Cole's bill would simply restore the Secretary of the Interior's authority to take land into trust for all tribes, regardless of their date of Federal recognition.

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Add at the end the following: SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, and the amendments made by this Act, shall take…

wildlife trafficking and illegal logging facilitate instability in a country.

This amendment says that this act cannot take effect until the Secretary certifies that the Bureau of Land Management and other Federal permitting agencies have sufficient staff and funding to actually comply with the deadlines established…