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House rejects extra funding to help tribal courts after McGirt ruling
Monday, August 2, 2021
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WASHINGTON – The House last week rejected a proposal that would have added $154 million to the Bureau of Indian Affairs budget to help tribal courts cope with an influx of cases after a 2020 Supreme Court ruling that expanded tribal jurisdiction.
The extra funding was proposed by Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, as an amendment to an appropriations bill that included fiscal 2022 funding for the departments of Interior, Labor, Agriculture, Health and Human Services and more. Cole’s proposal would have offset the increased funding for BIA with cuts to environmental programs.
That amendment, one of more than 200 proposed for the appropriations bill, was rejected Tuesday in a group with 40 other amendments offered by Republicans – an outcome Cole had predicted in the Democrat-controlled House.
“We may or may not prevail, but it’s really important that the discussion continues,” Cole said before Tuesday’s vote. The overall appropriations bill passed 219-208 Thursday on a straight party-line vote.
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Note: This story originally appeared on Cronkite News. It is published via a Creative Commons license. Cronkite News is produced by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
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