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Norman D. Dicks: “The other problem with this is the tribes were not consulted before we made this decision. I am very upset that the…”

On the recordJuly 22, 1998
The other problem with this is the tribes were not consulted before we made this decision. I am very upset that the administration in its budget, I completely concur with the chairman, completely punted on this issue. They did not have any money to address this or not very much. We tried to correct this, but, I think, unfortunately, what we are going to do here if we do not accept the gentleman's amendment is to penalize those people who have not entered into self-determination agreements, and then punish those that have. I think that will be unfortunate. Maybe we can work this out between now and the conference.
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Discussing the lack of consultation with tribes regarding budget decisions.

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