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Cynthia Lummis: “Why should Congress not apply the same criteria to the request of Native Hawaiians as is applied to the tribes that I…”

On the recordJune 10, 2009
Why should Congress not apply the same criteria to the request of Native Hawaiians as is applied to the tribes that I deal with within the contiguous United States?
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Cynthia Lummis
Republican · Wyoming

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Lummis questions the criteria for Native Hawaiian requests compared to other tribes.

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