You continually fight for the rights of Native Americans and you have persistently expressed to me the need to properly fund our trust responsibilities to the tribes. It has been a longstanding policy of this committee to fund water rights settlements that have been enacted into law. This one is no exception. However, this settlement will be a challenge for funding in the fiscal year of 2004.
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