Campbell: Tribes 'sidetracked' by Abramoff scandal

Tuesday, January 30, 2007  

Indian issues got "sidetracked" by the Jack Abramoff scandal, former Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colorado) said last week.

Campbell spoke at a Capitol Hill breakfast sponsored by the National Congress of American Indians and The Hill newspaper. "As you know, for the last couple of years, I think we were really sidetracked," he said, The Hill reported.

"Things that are really important to us, like education and housing and nutrition and jobs and the whole agenda went [out the window] for us," the former chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee said.

Campbell praised Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-North Dakota), the new chairman of the committee, for focusing on critical issues facing Indian Country. "We have Third World conditions in a number of Indian reservations in areas of housing, health and education. We need to address these issues," Dorgan said.

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Senate Finance Committee Democratic Report:
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Senate Finance Committee Materials:
Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy | Americans for Tax Reform | National Center for Public Policy Research | Citizens Against Government Waste | Toward Tradition | News Article Clippings

House Government Reform Committee Documents:
Report | Billing Records Spreadsheet | Attachment 1 | Attachment 2 | Press Release

Senate Indian Affairs Committee Abramoff Report:
“GIMME FIVE”— INVESTIGATION OF TRIBAL LOBBYING MATTERS (June 2006)

Exhibits:
Pre-2001 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | Undated | Finance

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