Listening Lounge: House hearing on IGRA bill

Friday, April 7, 2006

For those who asked, here are audio files of the Wednesday, April 5, 2006, House Resources Committee hearing on off-reservation gaming.

Rep. Richard Pombo (R-California), the chairman of the committee, called the hearing to take testimony on H.R.4893. The bill would make it harder for tribes to acquire non-reservation land for gaming.

• Introduction - 4:22 - 1MB $P Panel I
• Testimony - 19:17 - 4.4MB | Q&A - 60:41 - 13.8MB
John Shagonaby, Treasurer
Match-E-Be-Nash-E-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians, Gun Lake Tribe $P Donald Arnold
Chairman, Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians $P Jacquie Davis-Van Huss
Secretary, North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians of California

Panel 2
• Testimony -26:30 - 6.0MB | Q&A - 32:21 - 7.4MB
Michigan State Representative Fulton Sheen, Representing 23 is Enough!
$P Illinois Representative JoAnn D. Osmond
Steven Worthley, Tulare County Member, Indian Gaming Working Group, California State Association of Counties
$P Randy King
Shinnecock Indian Nation