“There’s always the appeals process in the courts, so that’s certainly not settled.”
“To think that it’s going to cost a billion dollars — I mean, that’s a thousand millions.”
“We are making sure that working people will not be priced out of the game that they helped to create.”
“the nation's top law enforcement official asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops …. Utterly stupid, morally wrong.”
“It extends to making it possible for every New Yorker to take part in the things that make us human.”

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On the recordFebruary 8, 2024
For Lower Sioux, this corporate charter limits transactions that they can make to $1,000 without the direct consent of the Secretary of the Interior.
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Tina Smith
Democratic · Minnesota
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Senator Smith explains the restrictive nature of the corporate charter on Lower Sioux's transactions.

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