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The Senate Indian Affairs
Committee held a hearing this morning to focus on backlogs at the Interior Department.
Land-into-trust, land title, probate and other backlogs often affect the
ability of tribes and individual Indians to use their land and engage in
economic development. The committee looked into the issue twice during the 110th
Congress: at a hearing on October 4, 2007 and another on
May 22, 2008.
The hearing lasted about 78 minutes.
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