We are impugning the entire foundation of what this country, this institution, this House of Representatives, is founded on when we make statements like that.
I still think that the founding principles of vesting that power into the lower house first, or even the upper house, th...
if there had been a more consistent handling of this, I think, from the BIA and through the Administration, then we prob...
if people want to say that the Constitution and having duly elected officials making the laws through the constitutional...
I would be shocked, Mr. Chairman, shocked to hear that politics would be coming out of the Administration or the BIA.
I hope the efforts of this Commission will help us to shape that.
We are having food costs, or other, like, Health Department issues, where people that want to donate food, or they want ...
We don't have a jobs economy lately.
Unfortunately, anti-growth obstructionists have already threatened to stall this process with lawsuits.
It is important that we in Congress back up, basically, our oath to preserve constitutional ideals.
The legislation provides for certain aspects that the County can predict, whereas the Tribe wouldn't necessarily have to...