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Christopher Shays: “Reclaiming my time, as we keep talking about it, more warnings go off to me. The fact that they would have only tried…”

On the recordMay 8, 2007
Reclaiming my time, as we keep talking about it, more warnings go off to me. The fact that they would have only tried for the last 8 years to go through this process, it strikes me as extraordinarily arrogant that this tribe, that has only tried for 8 years, should bypass tribes that have tried for much longer than that. And the fact that they are trying now as opposed to in the past tells me that they saw the kind of revenues that existed and said, hey, let's be part of this gravy train. That concerns me as well.
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Christopher Shays
Connecticut
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Discussing concerns about a tribe's attempts to gain recognition and bypassing others during a legislative debate.

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