On the recordMay 10, 1996
I rise in opposition to the Young amendment. Now is the time to improve this 1978 law. The children of Native American descent who are harmed by overbroad application of the Indian Child Welfare Act can not lobby, they can not write letters and they can not wait. It is time to relieve them of the fear of being taken away from their mom and dad and it is time to give children without parents the chance to be adopted. This legislation does not interfere with the Tribal courts jurisdiction over a child on a reservation or a child who has even one parent that is connected with a tribe. Title III of H.R. 3286 simply restores individual freedom to those children and birth-parents whose only connection with a tribe is genetic. I urge my colleagues to support title III.
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