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Demand the Department of Interior Open the OCS

| Posted in Dear Colleagues

Dear Colleague, I am asking you to join me in sending the attached letter to Secretary Salazar demanding that he roll back the “Obama Moratorium” on OCS development. On March 5, Secretary Salazar said that the Department will not be issuing an OCS lease plan until 2012 rather in July of this year. This means that the Draft Proposed Plan, initiated in 2008 and proposed as a draft in…

Support the Hastings of Washington Amendment to the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act

| Posted in Dear Colleagues

Support the Hastings of Washington Amendment to Require a Statewide Vote on Creating a Separate Native Government in Hawaii Dear Colleague: In 1959, a vote was taken in Hawaii on the question of becoming a state. Over 94 percent voted in favor of statehood. Hawaii voted overwhelmingly to join our union as one unified state. Today, under this bill, Congress will vote on dividing the…

Fundamental Changes in Final Text of Native Hawaiian Bill

| Posted in Dear Colleagues

Read the full Dear Colleague HERE February 23, 2010 Fundamental Changes in Final Text of Native Hawaiian Bill Today, the House of Representatives will vote on the final rewritten text (Abercrombie substitute) of the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2009. This latest version, written in secret without Committee review or markup, contains fundamental changes from the bill…

Native Hawaiian bill fundamentally changed from 110th version

| Posted in Dear Colleagues

February 22, 2010 House to vote on rewritten Native Hawaiian Recognition Bill Text is “fundamentally changed” from last Congress Dear Colleague: This week the Democrat Leadership is bringing H.R. 2314 to the Floor, a bill to extend tribal recognition to a Native Hawaiian “governing entity.” In the 110th Congress, a previous version of this legislation (H.R. 505) passed 261-153. All…