WashingtonWatch.com - Subject: Federal-Indian relations

H.R. 6098, The Personnel Reimbursement for Intelligence Cooperation and Enhancement of Homeland Security Act - Cost per Average Family: $0.00

Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 6098 would amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to improve the financial assistance provided to State, local, and tribal governments for information sharing activities....

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H.R. 5928, The Mark O. Hatfield Scholarship and Excellence in Tribal Governance Act of 2008

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 5928 would establish the Mark O. Hatfield Scholarship and Excellence in Tribal Governance Foundation....

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S. 2949, The Mark O. Hatfield Scholarship and Excellence in Tribal Governance Act of 2008

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

S. 2949 would establish the Mark O. Hatfield Scholarship and Excellence in Tribal Governance Foundation and for other purposes....

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H.R. 5680, To amend certain laws relating to Native Americans, and for others purposes - Cost per Average Family: $0.05

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 5680 would amend certain laws relating to Native Americans....

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H.R. 5429, The Marine Mammal Cooperative Agreements in Alaska Amendments Act of 2008

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

H.R. 5429 would amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to authorize appropriations for marine mammal cooperative management agreements in Alaska....

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H.R. 5403, The 13th Regional Corporation Land Entitlement Act

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

H.R. 5403 would amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to provide an equitable distribution of land to the 13th Alaska Native Regional Corporation....

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H.R. 5335, To amend the National Trails System Act to provide for the inclusion of new trail segments, land components, and campgrounds associated with the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail, and for other purposes - Cost per Average Family: $0.05

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

H.R. 5335 would amend the National Trails System Act to provide for the inclusion of new trail segments, land components, and campgrounds associated with the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail....

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S. 2520, A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow Indian tribal governments to transfer the credit for electricity produced from renewable resources

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

S. 2520 would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow Indian tribal governments to transfer the credit for electricity produced from renewable resources....

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P.L. 110-297, The Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians Settlement Act - Cost per Average Family: $0.19

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

H.R. 4841 would approve, ratify, and confirm the settlement agreement entered into to resolve claims by the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians relating to alleged interences with the water resources of the Tribe, and it would authorize and direct the Secretary of the Interior to execute and perform the Settlement Agreement and related waivers....

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S. 2494, The Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation Grand Coulee Dam Equitable Compensation Settlement Act - Cost per Average Family: $0.76

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

S. 2494 would provide for equitable compensation to the Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation for the use of tribal land for the production of hydropower by the Grand Coulee Dam....

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H.R. 4652, The Environmental Justice Access and Implementation Act of 2007

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

H.R. 4652 would direct each Federal agency to establish an Environmental Justice Office....

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H.R. 4115, To provide for and approve the settlement of certain land claims of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians - Cost per Average Family: $0.00

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST

H.R. 4115 would provide for and approve the settlement of certain land claims of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians....

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H.R. 4065, The Border Enforcement, Employment Verification, and Illegal Immigration Control Act

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 4065 would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to strengthen enforcement of the immigration laws and it would enhance border security....

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H.R. 4031, The Professional Boxing Amendments Act of 2007

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 4031 would establish a United States Boxing Commission to administer the Act....

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H.R. 4027, To amend the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act so that it will be interpreted in accordance with the original intent of Congress to require a significant relationship be found between remains discovered on Federal lands and presently existing Native American tribes for those remains to be applicable under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 4027 would amend the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act so that it will be interpreted in accordance with the original intent of Congress to require a significant relationship be found between remains discovered on Federal lands and presently existing Native American tribes for those remains to be applicable under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act....

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H.R. 3994, The Department of the Interior Tribal Self-Governance Act of 2007

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3994 would amend the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to provide further self-governance by Indian tribes....

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S. 2231, The Cooperative Conservation Enhancement Act

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

S. 2231 would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to strengthen cooperative conservation efforts and to reduce barriers to the use of partnerships to enable Federal natural resource managers to meet their obligations....

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H.R. 3944, The National Hepatitis B Act

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3944 would amend the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish, promote, and support a comprehensive prevention, education, research, and medical management program that will lead to a marked reduction in liver cirrhosis and a reduction in the cases of, and improved survival of, liver cancer caused by chronic hepatitis B infection....

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H.R. 3858, To improve the further development of water resources in Colorado and New Mexico, and for other purposes

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3858 would improve the further development of water resources in Colorado and New Mexico....

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H.R. 3815, The Homeland Security Open Source Information Enhancement Act of 2007 - Cost per Average Family: $0.04

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3815 would amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to make full and efficient use of open source information to develop and disseminate open source homeland security information products....

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H.R. 3788, To ensure that no Federal law shall prevent the Tuscarora Nation of Indians of the Carolinas from seeking Federal recognition as an Indian tribe, and for other purposes

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3788 would ensure that no Federal law shall prevent the Tuscarora Nation of Indians of the Carolinas from seeking Federal recognition as an Indian tribe....

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H.R. 3787, The Land-In-Trust Public Hearing Act

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3787 would require that the Secretary of the Interior hold at least one public hearing in the surrounding community where land requested to be taken into trust for an Indian tribe is located in order to ascertain the needs and interests of that surrounding community....

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H.R. 3752, To provide that the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act shall not apply to an Indian tribe or to Indian lands of an Indian tribe until that Indian tribe has been federally recognized for a period of not less than 25 continuous years

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3752 would provide that the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act shall not apply to an Indian tribe or to Indian lands of an Indian tribe until that Indian tribe has been federally recognized for a period of not less than 25 continuous years....

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H.R. 3699, To provide for the use and distribution of the funds awarded to the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe in Minnesota Chippewa Tribe v. United States, Docket Nos. 19 and 188, United States Court of Federal Claims

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3699 would provide for the use and distribution of the funds awarded to the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe in Minnesota Chippewa Tribe v. United States, Docket Nos. 19 and 188, United States Court of Federal Claims....

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H.R. 3570, The Providing Electronic Resources and Prosecutors Act of 2007

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3570 would take certain property in McIntosh County, Oklahoma, into trust for the benefit of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation....

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