Whenever the Department of Defense gets into a contract with General Electric or Boeing or any of the other great organizations, that contract is carried out, even if it means supplemental appropriations.
Inouye criticized unequal treatment of contracts with Indian Tribes compared to other government contracts.
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The Department affects almost all sectors of our Nation's economy and literally touches all of our lives.
We have the diplomatic approach, which is the carrot and carrot approach, where everybody wins.
It is and has always been Federal law and policy that Indian tribes recognized by the Federal Government stand on an equal footing to each other and to the Federal Government.
The NALEMP annual appropriation was first drafted in 1993 by Senator Ted Stevens and Senator Daniel Inouye.
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