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<\/p>\r\nThe House Committee on Natural Resources<\/a> is convening for the first time in the 117th Congress.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe legislative panel, which has jurisdiction over Indian issues in the U.S. House of Representatives<\/a>, will hold an organizing meeting at 11am Eastern on Thursday morning. The proceeding will be live-streamed on YouTube<\/a> and on Facebook<\/a>.\r\n

<\/P>\r\nThe committee is chaired by Rep. Ra\u00fal Grijalva<\/a> (D-Arizona). He took over the panel during the 116th Congress, when Democrats gained control of the House.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n“With Democrats in charge, we spent the 116th Congress listening to the American people and turning their ideas into law, especially on climate change and protecting our environment,” Grijalva said in a report outlining the committee’s achievements<\/a>. \r\n

<\/p>\r\n“We\u2019ve helped build a public movement behind environmental justice and other issues that desperately need to be elevated, and we\u2019ve changed the tone of Congress by focusing on impacted communities, economic justice, and the perspective of Native American tribes, residents of the U.S. territories, and other typically marginalized people,” added Grijalva.\r\n

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<\/P>\r\nThe achievements include the enactment of Savanna\u2019s Act<\/a> and the Not Invisible Act<\/a>. The two bills, which became law last October<\/a>, address the crisis of missing and murdered Native Americans, especially women and girls.\r\n

<\/P>\r\n“In the 116th Congress, the committee held the first ever House hearing to address the silent crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and review the historic failure on this issue by the Trump administration,” the Resources at Work report<\/a>, released on Friday, stated.\r\n

<\/P>\r\n “The hearing featured four Native American women as expert witnesses, who testified that Congress and federal agencies have not honored their trust responsibilities to Native communities and that stopping the epidemic of violence against Native women will take time and resources not currently being offered,” the report continued.\r\n

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