When tribes can control their affairs--their education system, their health care system--and individual tribal members know where the decisions are made, it is not somewhere hundreds or thousands of miles away, it is in their community with their own leadership that they can hold responsible they do better.
Cole emphasizes the importance of tribal control over local governance.
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I reserve the balance of my time. Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton).
We will engage where it matters, we will invest where it counts, and we will demand accountability for every dollar spent.
Cole argued that Democrats are being unreasonable by withholding support for a deal because of disagreements with Trump’s use of executive powers.
The president has to sign it, so it can’t be something that he decides he doesn’t want to sign.
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