Val Hoyle actually said...

I couldn't be more proud to hopefully have this become the first law that I have sponsored, because this is a long time coming.

Our Restoration Act in 1977 was supposed to make us whole again, righting the terrible wrongs of termination.

H.R. 2839 will go a long way toward finally healing those wounds after 43 years.

H.R. 2839 would allow the Tribe to renegotiate their subsistence agreements with the state of Oregon to replace the current consent decree.