Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings issued the following statement regarding H.R. 31, the Lumbee Recognition Act: “Until the Democrat Leadership arm-twisted enough of their members to change their votes, a majority of the House voted for my amendment to ensure the Secretary of the Interior verifies that members of the Lumbee tribe are the descendents of… Read more »

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House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings’ (WA-04) open remarks, as prepared for delivery, at today’s full committee hearing on H.R. 31, the “Lumbee Recognition Act,” and H.R. 1385, the “Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2009”: Mr. Chairman, thank you for holding a hearing on H.R. 31 and H.R. 1385.  There are a number of new… Read more »

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