WASHINGTON D.C. –
The U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee will conduct a business meeting at 3:00 PM, Thursday, Thursday, June 10 to consider and vote on three of President Barrack Obama’s nominees and three bills pending before the committee. The hearing will take place in Room 628 Dirksen Senate Office Building, in Washington, D.C.
Details follow:
WHO: U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee, Senators Byron Dorgan, (D-ND) Chairman; John Barrasso (R-WY), and other members of the committee.
WHAT: Business meeting to consider and vote on three nominations and three bills pending before the committee:
NOMINEES
Tracie L. Stevens to serve as Chair of the National Indian Gaming Commission.
JoAnn Balzer and Cynthia Cavez Lamar to serve as Members of the Board of Trustees, Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development.
BILLS
S. 2802, the Blackfoot River Land Settlement Act of 2009
S. 2906, a bill to amend the Act of August 9, 1955, to modify a provision relating to leases involving certain Indian tribes in Washington;
S. 1448, a bill to amend the Act of August 9, 1955, to authorize the Coquille Indian Tribe, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Suislaw,the Kalmath Tribes and the Burns Paiute Tribe to obtain 99-year lease authority for trust land.
WHEN: 3:00 PM, Thursday, June 10, 2010
WHERE: 628 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C.
WHY: To consider and vote on three of President Barrack Obama’s nominations and three bills pending before the committee.
Contact: Barry Piatt