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Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee

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House Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs

Showing the 116th Congress (2019–2020), when this was the Indigenous Peoples of the United States. Back to the 119th Congress

140 bills referred in the 116th Congress

818 across the 8 Congresses on file, more in this Congress than in any other. A referral is not a hearing: most bills sent to a committee are never taken up.

Bills referred, by Congress 112th to 119th

Members

Served in the 116th Congress

Meetings

Hearings and business meetings in the 116th Congress

Members, 116th Congress 12

Everyone listed on the subcommittee in the 116th Congress, from printed hearings, the Congressional Directory and the official rosters.

Seat	Member	Role
D-AZ	Ruben Gallego	Chair
R-AS	Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen
D-FL	Darren Soto
D-NM	Debra A. Haaland
R-AK	Don Young
D-HI	Ed Case
D-IL	Jesús G. "Chuy" García
R-UT	John R. Curtis
R-OK	Kevin Hern
D-PA	Matt Cartwright
D-GU	Michael F. Q. San Nicolas
R-CA	Paul Cook

Record

Bills, meetings, hearings, reports and more, newest first. In the 116th Congress.

Newest activity first. In the 116th Congress.

Bill	Title	Referral	Date
HR 2029	Studying the Missing and Murdered Indian Crisis Act of 2019	Referred To	Apr 23, 2019
HR 1937	Indian Community Economic Enhancement Act of 2019	Referred To	Apr 16, 2019
HR 1900	Native American Business Incubators Program Act	Referred To	Apr 11, 2019
HR 1514	To sever United States Government relations with the Creek Nation of Oklahoma until such time as the Creek Nation of Oklahoma restores full Tribal citizenship to the Creek Freedmen disenfranchised in the October 6, 1979, Creek Nation vote and fulfills all its treaty obligations with the Government of the United States, and for other purposes.	Referred To	Apr 4, 2019
HR 1741	Violence Against Women Extension Act of 2019	Referred To	Apr 3, 2019
HRES 278	Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives to recognize the crisis of violence against Native women.	Referred To	Apr 2, 2019
HR 1893	Next Step Act of 2019	Referred To	Mar 28, 2019
HR 1585	Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019	Referred To	Mar 20, 2019

Hearings, markups and business meetings, newest first. In the 116th Congress.

Kind	Subject	Status	Date
Hearing	Legislative Hearing on H.R. 7565 and H.R. 825521 documents 4 witnesses The Honorable Scott Neisler, Mayor, City of Kings Mountain The Honorable Richard Sneed, Principal Chief, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians The Honorable Chris Osceola, Hollywood Councilman, Seminole Tribe of Florida The Honorable William Harris, Chief, Catawba Indian Nation	Scheduled	Sep 24, 2020

Hearing	"Examining the Bureau of Indian Education's School Reopening Guidance During the COVID-19 Pandemic"----------26 documents 4 witnesses The Honorable Joe Garcia, Co-Chair, Tribal Interior Budget Council, Education Subcommittee, National Congress of American Indians Mr. Lance Witte, Superintendent & Principal, Lower Brule Schools Ms. Sue Parton, President, Federation of Indian Service Employees Ms. Therese Yanan, Executive Directory & Attorney, Native American Disability Law Center	Scheduled	Sep 10, 2020

Hearing	Legislative Hearing on H.R. 958, H.R. 6237, H.R. 6535, H.R. 7119Longworth House Office Building 132430 documents 6 witnesses Mr. Jason O'Neal, Assistant Deputy Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Office of Justice Services, U.S. Department of the Interior Rear Admiral Lower Half Michael Weahkee, Director, Indian Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Mr. Alejandro Benally, Sr., Chief of Police, San Carlos Apache Tribe The Honorable William Smith, Acting Chairman, National Indian Health Board Ms. Robyn Sunday-Allen, Vice President, National Council of Urban Indian Health Mr. Andy Teuber, Chairman and President, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium	Scheduled	Jul 22, 2020

Hearing	"Native Youth Perspectives on Mental Health and Healing"----------16 documents 4 witnesses Ms. Leticia Gonzales, UNITY/OJJDP Peer Guide Ambassador Ms. Cheyenne Kippenberger, UNITY/OJJDP Peer Guide Ambassador Mr. Marco Ovando, UNITY 25 Under 25 Youth Leader Mr. Robert "Scottie" Miller, Male Co-President, National UNITY Council	Scheduled	Jul 16, 2020

Hearing	"The Irreparable Environmental and Cultural Impacts of the Proposed Resolution Copper Mining Operation”Longworth House Office Building 132418 documents 6 witnesses The Honorable Wendsler Nosie, Sr., Founder, Apache Stronghold Mr. Kevin Allis, CEO, National Congress of American Indians Dr. Steven Emerman, Owner, Malach Consulting Dr. James Wells, COO, L. Everett & Associates Ms. Naelyn Pike, Youth Organizer, Apache Stronghold Mr. Roy Chavez, Chair, Concerned Citizens and Retired Miners Coalition	Scheduled	Mar 12, 2020

Meeting	"Destroying Sacred Sites and Erasing Tribal Culture: The Trump Administration’s Construction of the Border Wall"Longworth House Office Building 132434 documents 6 witnesses The Honorable Ned Norris, Jr., Chairman, The Tohono O'odham Nation Ms. Sarah Krakoff, Moses Lasky Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School Ms. Shannon O'Loughlin, Executive Director, Association on American Indian Affairs Mr. Steve Hodapp, Retired Independent Contractor & Environmental Specialist Mr. Scott Cameron, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management, and Budget, U.S. Department of the Interior Dr. Anna Ortiz, Director, Natural Resources and the Environment, U.S. Government Accountability Office	Rescheduled	Feb 26, 2020

Hearing	Legislative Hearing on H.R. 4059, H.R. 4495, H.R. 4888, and H.R. 5153Longworth House Office Building 132419 documents	Scheduled	Feb 5, 2020

Hearing	Legislative Hearing on H.R. 1964Longworth House Office Building 132412 documents 3 witnesses The Honorable Harvey Godwin, Jr., Chairman, Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina Dr. Frederick Hoxie, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The Honorable Richard Sneed, Principal Chief, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians	Rescheduled	Dec 4, 2019

By Congress

The committee's record in each Congress on file. Choose one to see the page as it stood then: its members, subcommittees and record. A dash means the official source has nothing that early, not that the committee did nothing.

Congress	Members	Bills referred	Became law	Meetings
119th2025–2026, sitting	14	40	4	18
118th2023–2024	0	52	6	26
117th2021–2022	15	139	7	16
116th2019–2020	12	140	8	20
115th2017–2018	13	127	8	17
114th2015–2016	12	127	7	13
113th2013–2014	12	103	10	7
112th2011–2012	12	90	9	0

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Everything here is as published by Congress. Seats run from the 107th Congress, dated by the resolutions that made them and the Congressional Record; referrals and nominations from the 107th; meetings from the 112th. A committee older than that shows less than it has done. A subcommittee's referrals are recorded against it separately from its parent's, so the two lists do not add up. Records come from Congress.gov, GovInfo and the House and Senate.