Ron Wyden actually said...

A simpler tax code could help you stretch your resources at the Service in order to focus on areas of greater need.

That, obviously, is a skill in short supply here in the Nation's capitol, if you look at the events of the last couple of months.

Restoring these tribes' homelands so that they can exercise their sovereignty is very important to these tribes.

These bills are necessary to enable the tribes to exercise their authority as sovereign entities and to write historical wrongs.