Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (S. 199) to provide for the transfer of certain Federal land in the State of Minnesota for the benefit of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows: S. 199 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Reservation Restoration Act''. SEC. 2. LEECH LAKE BAND OF OJIBWE RESERVATION RESTORATION. (a) Findings.--Congress finds that-- (1) the Federal land described in subsection (b)(1) was taken from members of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe during a period-- (A) beginning in 1948; (B) during which the Bureau of Indian Affairs incorrectly interpreted an order of the Secretary of the Interior to mean that the Department of the Interior had the authority to sell tribal allotments without the consent of a majority of the rightful landowners; and (C) ending in 1959, when the Secretary of the Interior was-- (i) advised that sales described in subparagraph (B) were illegal; and (ii) ordered to cease conducting those sales; (2) as a result of the Federal land described in subsection (b)(1) being taken from members of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe hold the smallest percentage of its original reservation lands of any Ojibwe bands in Minnesota; (3)(A) the applicable statute of limitations prohibits in…”