Letter to DOI Secretary Salazar Requesting Extension for Comment Period on USFWS Proposed Revision of Bull Trout Critical Habitat Designation Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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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… Read more »
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… Read more »