Dan Kildee

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Today I rise in strong support of H.R. 2314, the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2009. I want to thank my dear friend and colleague Congressman Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii who introduced this legislation. As cochair of the…

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I rise today in support of H. Res. 862, congratulating the staff of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy for winning the 2009 Star Innovator in the Intel Schools of Distinction Competition. Each year the Intel Corporation holds an…

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I rise today in support of House Resolution 860, supporting the initiatives of Chicago Wilderness and the Children's Outdoor Bill of Rights. With more and more children growing up in a world where the Internet, cell phones and video games…

I don't see how you are going to make this work without some sanctions.

I suspect many of them are at the table defensibly, but nonetheless they are at the table.

We do have in the Constitution our basis for our relationship to the sovereign nations.

And I just want to let the author know there are some real conflicts here, and unless they are addressed, we will have a little problem.

we want to be fair and abide by the Constitution, abide by the treaties.

I want to just make the point that, as the witnesses here testified today, many tribes were unrecognized in 1934 because of harmful Federal policies.

We are glad to have you supporting so strongly the rights of the sovereignty of the Indians.

I am part of that trust responsibility. The trust responsibility is not just with the executive branch of government.

the treaties are the supreme law of the land.

Just as an aside, my father lived in the area of where your reservation is, Buckley, Michigan.

I think with lending as sluggish as it is right now that the lender would be very hesitant to lend money where there is some question as to whether the law covers them as a really existing potential borrower.

we are in effect the 'Indian Committee' in the Congress.

And I think, as Mr. Cole stated earlier, it has the potential to affect generations of economic development that have really turned around tribal communities.

But this would be as a result of litigation, would it not?

I first of all would like to thank the gentleman from the Interior Department for his testimony.

In certain states, there are treaties, specific treaties signed by tribes, yet through the years, the Department of the Interior and the BIA have just dropped certain tribes that were signatories to those treaties from the rolls.