Tom Cole actually said...

I want to thank the Subcommittee for all its hard work on behalf of Indian Country, and particularly today for holding this hearing on my le...

So, that is why the system is broken, in my view, Madam Chair. It is really a court decision that has caused the problem.

I have been a champion on this issue for the past 15 years, since the Supreme Court's 2009 Carcieri v. Salazar decision.

To amend the Act of June 18, 1934, to reaffirm the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for Indian Tribes.