{"id":7547,"date":"2020-07-29T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/covid19\/?p=7547"},"modified":"2020-07-29T14:12:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T18:12:40","slug":"choctaw-nation-chief-gary-batton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/2020\/07\/29\/choctaw-nation-chief-gary-batton\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Tom Udall (D-New Mexico)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"iframe-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/isvp\/?type=arch&amp;comm=indian&amp;filename=indian072920&amp;auto_play=false&amp;poster=https:\/\/www.indian.senate.gov\/sites\/all\/themes\/ldsbootstrap\/images\/Indian-affairs-video-bg.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>HAPPENING SOON: Udall to Press Trump Administration Witnesses on Bureau of Indian Education Response to COVID-19 During Indian Affairs Oversight Hearing<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON\u2014<u>TODAY, Wednesday, July 29, 2020, at approximately 2:30 p.m. ET \/ 12:30 p.m. MT,<\/u> U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.),<\/strong> vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, will press Trump administration witnesses on the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Tribal schools.<\/p>\n<p>During the oversight hearing, \u201cPreparing to Head Back to Class: Addressing How to Safely Reopen Bureau of Indian Education Schools\u201d, Udall and the committee will hear from two witness panels about BIE\u2019s COVID-19 response. Udall will question BIE Director Tony Dearman about BIA missteps in responding to COVID-19 and ask witnesses about whether BIE schools and Tribal colleges have the resources they need to safely reopen or offer distance learning opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the oversight hearing, the committee also held a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indian.senate.gov\/hearing\/business-meeting-consider-s-1161-s-2165-s-2610-s-2716-s-2891-s-2912-s-3019-s-3044-s-3099-s\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.indian.senate.gov\/hearing\/business-meeting-consider-s-1161-s-2165-s-2610-s-2716-s-2891-s-2912-s-3019-s-3044-s-3099-s&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1596132586343000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEpqIEWQ1S3Z-L1BELSMnoVEC5qKA\">business meeting<\/a> on 12 bills, including Udall\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomudall.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/udall-gallego-introduce-tribal-wildlife-corridors-act-of-2019\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.tomudall.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/udall-gallego-introduce-tribal-wildlife-corridors-act-of-2019&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1596132586343000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGpkXcbDLOtCzq0QpDZA5azmwW7XA\">Tribal Wildlife Corridors Act of 2019<\/a><\/em>, legislation that would empower Tribes to enhance habitat connectivity on Tribal lands.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>TODAY, July 29, 2020<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT:<\/strong> Udall to press Trump administration officials and Indian Health Service director on federal COVID-19 response in Indian Country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHO:<\/strong> U.S. Senator Tom Udall<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tony Dearman, Director, Bureau of Indian Education<\/li>\n<li>Marita Hinds, President, National Indian Education Association<\/li>\n<li>Dr. David Yarlott, Chair, American Indian Higher Education Consortium<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WHEN:<\/strong> 2:30 p.m. ET \/ 12:30 p.m. MT<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE: <\/strong>628 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Watch live <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indian.senate.gov\/hearing\/oversight-hearing-preparing-head-back-class-addressing-how-safely-reopen-bureau-indian\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.indian.senate.gov\/hearing\/oversight-hearing-preparing-head-back-class-addressing-how-safely-reopen-bureau-indian&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1596132586343000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFRMcqpSVUJbQGFyJKsc8eDqvUWUw\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tom Udall (D-New Mexico), vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, will press Trump administration witnesses on the Bureau of Indian Education response to the COVID-19 pandemic in tribal schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[18,50,685,35,17],"class_list":["post-7547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-institutions","tag-116th","tag-bie","tag-s-2891","tag-scia","tag-senate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7547"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7562,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7547\/revisions\/7562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}