Harriet Hageman

We appreciate your testimony and being willing to identify some potential tweaks that we could make to the legislation.

We so often talk about what doesn't work in Washington, DC, but today is a pretty good day because we are moving closer to making progress.

IHS healthcare providers need cultural competence to best serve their patients.

H.R. 8942 would require a mandatory annual training program for specific employees of the IHS on the history and culture of the tribes that they are serving.

I want to especially thank Congressman Dusty Johnson for working with this subcommittee on improving IHS.

I am concerned about whether appropriate standards of due process are in place to ensure that IGs and employees of IG offices are not unfairly targeted for just doing their jobs.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

To add insult to injury, U.S. dollars provided to the U.N. are also sent to NGOs that use these funds to provide cash, debit cards, food, clothing, medical treatment, shelter, and even ``humanitarian transportation'' to U.S.-bound illegal…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), add the following: Sec. _. None of the funds made…

They are coming for our food. And this is yet another example of that.

I would sure like to know why you would exclude the very industry that is involved in developing the technology and has the expertise.

I want to thank the witnesses for your valuable testimony, and I also want to thank the Members...

Chairman Cole, you make a compelling case, and your insight and history has been invaluable today.

But for the local communities, as well?

But you would agree that the gaming projects are the ones that tend to be the most controversial.

Even after 15 years, the Department has not yet determined how many of our 574 recognized tribes would be impacted by this decision?

It is long past time for lawmakers to act.

Trust land is like all other Federal pieces of land, like military bases or national parks that are not subject to state taxation.

Let me be clear: this is false. In fact, out of the 961 total pending fee-to-trust applications, only 26 are gaming applications.

Congress is long overdue to correct the law as the Supreme Court interpreted it when the Court made the Carcieri decision.

This decision by the Court makes it harder for tribes to manage and expand their territory, as well as putting millions of dollars' worth of trust land in legal limbo. This is simply unacceptable.

As an enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, I cannot overstate the importance of tribal sovereignty and the relationships that members of tribes have with their land, their identity, and their culture.

It is past time to do the right thing for Indian Country.

This legislation would essentially resolve the decision of Carcieri v.