{"id":1503,"date":"2020-09-28T13:38:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T18:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2020-10-22T20:16:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T01:16:23","slug":"house-committee-on-natural-resources-schedules-markup-on-indian-country-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/09\/28\/house-committee-on-natural-resources-schedules-markup-on-indian-country-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"House Committee on Natural Resources schedules markup on Indian Country bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe  src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NNtrWRMcyQw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">House Committee on Natural Resources: <a href=https:\/\/youtu.be\/NNtrWRMcyQw>Remote Full Committee Markup<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">House Committee on Natural Resources schedules markup on Indian Country bills<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Monday, September 28, 2020<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source\">Indianz.Com<\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe <a href=https:\/\/naturalresources.house.gov\/>House Committee on Natural Resources<\/a> will meet on Wednesday for a markup.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nA handful of Indian Country bills are <a href=https:\/\/naturalresources.house.gov\/hearings\/remote-full-committee-markup>on the agenda<\/a>. They follow:\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n\r\n\t<li><a href=https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/116th-congress\/house-bill\/733>H.R.733<a\/a>, the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Reservation Restoration Act.  The <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2018\/07\/10\/witness-list-for-hearing-on-bill-to-retu.asp>bill transfers nearly 18,000 acres<\/a> of federal forest lands in Minnesota to the <a href=http:\/\/www.llojibwe.org\/>Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe<\/a>.  <\/li>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n\t<li><a href=https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/116th-congress\/house-bill\/1964>H.R.1964<\/a>, the Lumbee Recognition Act.  The bill extends federal recognition to the <a href=https:\/\/www.lumbeetribe.com\/>Lumbee Tribe<\/a>, based in North Carolina. <\/li>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n\t<li><a href=https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/116th-congress\/house-bill\/5153>H.R.5153<\/a>, the Indian Buffalo Management Act. The bill establishes a program within the <a href=https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/>Department of the Interior<\/a> to assist tribes and tribal organizations with the <a href=https:\/\/itbcbuffalonation.org\/indian-buffalo-management-act\/>protection, conservation and fostering of buffalo herds<\/a>. <\/li>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n\t<li><a href=https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/116th-congress\/senate-bill\/212>S.212<\/a>, the Indian Community Economic Enhancement Act.    The bill addresses tribal economic development programs and initiatives at the <a href=https:\/\/www.commerce.gov\/>Department of Commerce<\/a>, the <a href=https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/>Department of the Interior<\/a>, the <a href=https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/>Department of  Health and Human Services<\/a> and the <a href=https:\/\/www.acf.hhs.gov\/ana>Administration for Native Americans<\/a>.  Included are provisions to implement the Buy Indian Act. <a href=https:\/\/www.indian.senate.gov\/news\/press-release\/hoeven-senate-passes-11-bills-indian-country>S.212   passed<\/a> the <a href=https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/>U.S. Senate<\/a> on June 27, 2019.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe markup takes place at 12pm Eastern. It will be broadcast on <a href=https:\/\/youtu.be\/NNtrWRMcyQw>YouTube<\/a> and on <a href=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NRDems\/live_videos\/>Facebook<\/a>.\r\n<P><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"h5-responsive sub\">House Committee on Natural Resources<\/div>\r\n<a href=https:\/\/naturalresources.house.gov\/hearings\/remote-full-committee-markup>Remote Full Committee Markup<\/a> (September 30, 2020)\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bills to return land to the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, extend federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe, address bison management and improve tribal economic development programs are on the agenda.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,12,20,1,14],"tags":[50,378,379,377,118,383,384,382,248,49,48,186,380,718,381,291,91],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-environment","category-federal-recognition","category-indian-trust","category-national","category-politics","tag-116th","tag-ana","tag-bison","tag-commerce","tag-doi","tag-h-r-1964","tag-h-r-5153","tag-h-r-733","tag-hhs","tag-hnrc","tag-house","tag-land-into-trust","tag-leech-lake","tag-lumbee","tag-minnesota","tag-s-212","tag-senate","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/hnrc093020.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-of","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}