Nevada Native Nations Land Act

Floor Speech

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Mr. AMODEI. I thank my colleague from the Silver State and my colleague from the Show Me State. I appreciate the background.

Mr. Speaker, this is the return of a bill that was passed in the 114th Congress by a voice vote in the House of Representatives. It went to the Senate. I can't tell you what happened there, but the good news is that the 114th Congress, the Senate, has moved on a companion bill; so we might actually get some resolution of this.

I note that my colleague from the Show Me State mentioned patience and hard work. I want to point out that, for the folks of the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe, the 19,000-acre transfer that is proposed in this piece of legislation was first before the United States Congress in a bill that was introduced in 1972 by then-Nevada Senators Alan Bible and Howard Cannon. Certainly, that tribe gets the ``patience'' award in terms of waiting to fill in what is largely checkerboard-type holdings to consolidate their holdings in the whole thing.

As a whole, about 31,000 acres are in my colleague's CD4 district, and 40,000 acres are in the rest of CD2. There is a variety of things to provide housing to attract healthcare facility givers and cultural resource preservation buffer zones. It has been through the planning process in those counties in which it is. Many off-road vehicle organizations support this. It can hardly be said to have been sprung on anybody.

I urge my colleagues' support.

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