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Frank Riggs: “Mr. Speaker and colleagues, the bill before us now on the floor under suspension of the rules, I introduced on January 7…”

On the recordJune 3, 1997
Mr. Speaker and colleagues, the bill before us now on the floor under suspension of the rules, I introduced on January 7 of this year, the first day of the 105th Congress. It is for me a very high personal legislative priority, because it would convey to the Hoopa Valley tribe in Humboldt County, CA, land to restore the tribe's reservation to its original intended, agreed-upon boundary. This boundary is intended to be a perfect square. This legislation is virtually identical to House Resolution 2710, which I sponsored in the last Congress. That bill passed the House by a voice vote on September 11, 1996. It was then cleared on a bipartisan basis for unanimous-consent approval by the Senate, and a representative of the Clinton administration wrote that the President would sign the bill. However, to my great regret, the Senate adjourned for the year and for the Congress before the legislation could be acted upon.
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Frank Riggs
California
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Discussing legislation to restore the Hoopa Valley tribe's reservation boundaries.

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