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On the recordJune 10, 2009
They are wrong. As I said, there are appropriate lines of cases that apply to the special relationship that the United States has native peoples.
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Mazie Hirono
Democratic · Hawaii

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Hirono defends the constitutionality of H.R. 2314.

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