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Senate Committee on Indian Affairs: Organizational Business Meeting
Thursday, February 11, 2021
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Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Organizational Business Meeting
Thursday, February 11 2021 – 11:00 AM
Location: Dirksen
Room Number: 628

Agenda
  1. Selection of the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Committee.
  2. Adoption of the rules of the Committee for the 117th Congress.
  3. Adoption of the funding resolution for the Committee for the 117th Congress.

Notes
• Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), the new chairman of the committee, offered a welcome to two new members: Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-New Mexico) and Sen. Mike Rounds (R-South Dakota)

• Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), the new vice chair, offers a welcome to Luján and Rounds as well.

• Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Washington), Sen. Jon Tester (D-Montana), and Sen. John Hoeven (R-North Dakota) offered brief remarks.

• Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minnesota) and Luján were also in attendance at the meeting.

Actions
• By a voice vote, members of the committee formally approved Schatz as chair of the committee and Murkowski as vice chair.

• By a voice vote, members of the committee approved the rules of the committee for the 117th Congress.

• By a voice vote, members of the committee approved a funding resolution for committee for the 117th Congress.

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