06/06/2017
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"Senator Bingaman has long been a great advocate of Tribal water legislation and has been persistently diligent in moving this and other important pieces of water legislation through Congress."
"I hope that through the testimony we hear today, my colleagues on the Committee will, number one, understand the need for flexible and innovative approaches to water management in the arid west."
"I think both Navajo and Jicarilla Apache, both have provisions allowing off-reservation leasing."
"We are a treaty Tribe, having entered into a treaty with the United States on July 1st, 1852."