Don't forget to tune into the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing at 2:30pm Eastern! Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Tara Sweeney is making her first Congressional appearance this afternoon. https://t.co/dZZpPfh03T
— indianz.com (@indianz) April 10, 2019
Starting soon: Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing on “Building out Indian Country: Tools for Community Development” @IndianCommittee pic.twitter.com/AtGUg0uBXD
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Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Tara Sweeney is testifying before Congress for the first time since joining the Trump administration. Here is her 7-page written statement to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs @IndianCommittee pic.twitter.com/deiy6DlqGf
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— indianz.com (@indianz) April 10, 2019
A PDF version will be posted here:https://t.co/dZZpPfh03T
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Starting soon: Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Tara Sweeney will testify about energy development and economic development at a hearing before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs @IndianCommittee pic.twitter.com/xHg9DYzvm8
— indianz.com (@indianz) April 10, 2019
Shoutout to all the Close Up students from the Red Lake Nation! They are here in Washington DC to learn about democracy, including the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing. @RedLakeNation #CloseUpDC #Minnesota @IndianCommittee pic.twitter.com/zKLXHFDnGm
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According to Sen. John Hoeven (R-North Dakota), the chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, financial institutions are “wary of working with tribes” due to barriers to development in Indian Country. @IndianCommittee pic.twitter.com/Q8X3LuSBof
— indianz.com (@indianz) April 10, 2019
According to Sen. Tom Udall (D-New Mexico), vice chairman of Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, the Bureau of Indian Affairs loan guarantee program “has long been essential to the success of Native borrowers.” Yet #FY2020 Trump budget eliminates the program. @IndianCommittee pic.twitter.com/SfAJp8A1wb
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Sen. John Hoeven (R-North Dakota), chairman of Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, is requiring Trump administration witnesses to explain why they submitted their testimony late. “My apologies—I was late in drafting the entire document,” Assistant Secretary Tara Sweeney said. pic.twitter.com/WcpnUU2W9o
— indianz.com (@indianz) April 10, 2019
Department of Treasury was late too: "We were verifying the data late into Monday," Jodie Harris said, so the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund @CDFIFund broke committee's rule requiring testimony to be submitted 48 hours in advance of hearing. @IndianCommittee
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Also breaking @IndianCommittee 48-hour rule regarding testimony was the Department of Commerce. "I want to apologize," said Henry Childs II of the Minority Business Development Agency. @USMBDA "It will not happen again."
— indianz.com (@indianz) April 10, 2019
Congrats to the Department of Agriculture! Rural Development @usdaRD apparently wasn't late submitting testimony so Chief Innovation Officer Jacqueline Ponti-Lazaruk wasn't forced to apologize to @IndianCommittee like the 3 other representatives from the Trump administration.
— indianz.com (@indianz) April 10, 2019
“It’s difficult for us to get loans on trust land,” said Mark Thompson, Lt Gov of Acoma Pueblo. So Indian Pueblo Cultural Center @indianpueblo has turned to Bureau of Indian Affairs loan guarantees. “We’ve never missed a payment and haven’t defaulted on any of these loans.” pic.twitter.com/ysCkvLf0I4
— indianz.com (@indianz) April 10, 2019
Hey, everyone, welcome Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Tara Sweeney @ASIndianAffairs to #NativeTwitter. She is the first Alaska Native woman to serve in the position at the Department of the Interior. @USIndianAffairs https://t.co/L5zU23NfDx
— indianz.com (@indianz) April 10, 2019
Sen. Steve Daines (R-Montana) is talking about the “crisis” of missing and murdered Native women. “This issue needs immediate and focused attention,” @SteveDaines told Assistant Secretary Tara Sweeney @ASIndianAffairs Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing. #MMIW #MMIWG pic.twitter.com/0xWiLIPQEu
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Sen. Steve Daines (R-Montana) has introduced S.Res.144 to designate May 5 as National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls. The bill honors Hanna Harris, a Northern Cheyenne woman who went missing and was murdered in 2013. https://t.co/4oxYx7lx0V
— indianz.com (@indianz) April 10, 2019
Additionally, Sen. Steve Daines (R-Montana) has asked the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs to host a field hearing on missing and murdered Native women and girls in Montana. When a Native woman goes missing or murdered, he said almost no one pays attention. #MMIW #MMIWG
— indianz.com (@indianz) April 10, 2019
On a second issue, Sen. Steve Daines (R-Montana) is working on a bill to prevent Stanley Patrick Weber, a former Indian Health Service pediatrician who was convicted of abusing boys on the Blackfeet Nation in #Montana, from receiving his government pension.
— indianz.com (@indianz) April 10, 2019
"That's absolutely wrong," @SteveDaines said of the possibility that Stanley Patrick Weber will receive his pension despite being convicted of crimes in Indian Country. He called Weber a "monster" adding: "We're fighting to ensure he never sees a dime of that pension.”
— indianz.com (@indianz) April 10, 2019
For more about Stanley Patrick Weber, the predator pediatrician who worked at the Indian Health Service for decades without being held accountable, here is some background: https://t.co/YLCsVT88AV
— indianz.com (@indianz) April 10, 2019
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) also presses Assistant Secretary Tara Sweeney to address the crisis of missing and murdered Native women. “There is a great deal of interest in working on these issues with you,” Murkowski said at Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing. pic.twitter.com/olvKGfjCRG
— indianz.com (@indianz) April 10, 2019
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) has introduced S.227, Savanna's Act, to start to address missing and murdered Native Americans. The bill honors Savanna Greywind, a Spirit Lake woman who went missing and was murdered in #NorthDakota in 2017.https://t.co/y7O6oaYAWD
— indianz.com (@indianz) April 10, 2019
Additionally, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nevada), a member of Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, has introduced S.982, the Not Invisible Act, to address missing, murdered, and trafficked Native people. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is co-sponsor.https://t.co/v3PxTfrZEx
— indianz.com (@indianz) April 10, 2019
Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM), vice chair of Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, blasts Trump for cutting Bureau of Indian Affairs loan guarantee program in #FY2020 budget. Assistant Secretary Tara Sweeney responds: “The president’s budget is the president’s budget and we support that.” pic.twitter.com/1lxZ93EsYu
— indianz.com (@indianz) April 10, 2019
