03/20/2017
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"H.R. 3764 will take away the Secretary of the Interior's authority to acknowledge tribes, and places it solely in the hands of Congress."
"If this bill passes the way it is written, those tribes may very well have to litigate whether they are legitimate."
"H.R. 3764 is a thinly veiled attempt to upend the legally-supported ability for the Secretary of the Interior to federally recognize Indian tribes."
"I am actually very disappointed in Congressman LaMalfa, who would assume that Congress does not have hyper-partisan, dysfunction, inability during these times."