On May 14, 2019, I, along with Chairman Grijalva and Representative Haaland, sent Secretary Bernhardt a letter expressing our concern...

I, along with Chairman Grijalva and Representative Haaland, sent Secretary Bernhardt a letter expressing our concern...

I urge the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to pass a bi-partisan infrastructure package.

I urge support for the Rehabilitation of Historic Schools Act, H.R. 158.

Our country needs more than $4.5 trillion by 2025 to fix our crumbling roads, bridges, train tracks, and dams.

I understand the current interpretation of the law is that military malpractice is an incident to military service. I mean, that shocks me, as a combat infantry Marine.

state officials such as Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham are taking the lead, coming up with new ways to reduce the harmful effects of oil and gas development.

the New Mexico congressional delegation introduced legislation to permanently protect the Federal lands around this sacred area.

Chaco Canyon and the Greater Chaco Landscape is a sacred place for tribes throughout the Southwest.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 136, insert after line 9 the following (and amend the table of contents accordingly): SEC. 905. REPORT…

My amendment to the Violence Against Women Act shines a light on a crisis that has been ignored for too long by this body: the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women. In Indian Country, American Indians and Alaska Native women…

If you don't understand what the impact is, how can you say it is actually going to affect Rhode Island? You are just guessing.

The establishment of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe's reservation has brought the promise of significant economic development.

The acquisition of trust land for the benefit of Indian tribes is essential to tribal self-determination, economic development, and the protection of tribal lands for generations to come.

what tribes are asking for in the Lower 48 and in Alaska is to be cooperating agencies from the start of that EIS document being started to the end of it so that they have the opportunity for true consultation to get their concerns in.

I think it is a particularly sad statement that 400 years later they still have to defend against the attack on their lands.

I want to thank the sponsor of this legislation, the gentleman from Massachusetts, Mr. Keating, for being here to testify.

H.R. 375, sponsored by Representative Tom Cole, would amend the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 to give the Secretary of the Interior the power to take land into trust for all tribes regardless of the date of the tribe's recognition.

the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Reservation Reaffirmation Act reaffirms the trust status of the lands of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe in Massachusetts.

A legislative fix is necessary to ensure that we are fulfilling one of our country's most important obligations to Indigenous communities.

Consultation requirements should be clear and should have the force of the law.

The construction and operation of the Tribe's planned casino and resort will create nearly 7,000 jobs.

Enacting H.R. 375 would restore clarity and stability for all federally recognized tribes, regardless of their date of recognition.

General Milley and General Goldfein, General Neller, Commandant of the Marine Corps, recently raised the alarm that he was experiencing severe and dangerous deficiencies in the Marine Corps due to unplanned demands placed on the Armed…

How can we be confident the money that we authorize or that appropriators send to the Department to meet shortfalls won't be reprogrammed into the future to something that doesn't help the readiness issues that we have been discussing?