Whatever the subcommittee chooses to do, the answer is, unequivocally, not to legislatively amend the Indian Self-Determination Act to cut off our rights to compensation for IHS's contract under-payments.
Opposes amendments that would limit tribal rights to compensation for under-payments.
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