Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee
House Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs
Showing the 114th Congress (2015–2016), when this was the Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs. Back to the 119th Congress
127 bills referred in the 114th Congress
815 across the 8 Congresses on file, most in the 116th at 140. A referral is not a hearing: most bills sent to a committee are never taken up.
Bills referred, by Congress 112th to 119th
Served in the 114th Congress
Hearings and business meetings in the 114th Congress
Members, 114th Congress 12
Everyone listed on the subcommittee in the 114th Congress, from printed hearings, the Congressional Directory and the official rosters.
| Seat | Member | Role |
|---|---|---|
| R-AK | Don Young | Chair |
| R-AS | Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen | |
| R-MI | Dan Benishek | |
| R-CA | Doug LaMalfa | |
| D-MP | Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan | |
| R-CA | Jeff Denham | |
| D-GU | Madeleine Z. Bordallo | |
| D-CA | Norma J. Torres | |
| R-AZ | Paul A. Gosar | |
| R-CA | Paul Cook | |
| D-PR | Pedro R. Pierluisi | |
| D-CA | Raul Ruiz |
Record
Bills, meetings, hearings, reports and more, newest first. In the 114th Congress.
Newest activity first. In the 114th Congress.
| Bill | Title | Referral | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 6529 | Chugach Region Lands Study Act | Referred To | Dec 19, 2016 |
| HR 6469 | Yurok Lands Act | Referred To | Dec 15, 2016 |
| HR 6479 | Red River Gradient Boundary Survey Act | Referred To | Dec 15, 2016 |
| HR 6307 | Mark Takai Compact-Impact Aid Act | Referred To | Nov 17, 2016 |
| HRES 922 | Acknowledging and honoring brave young men from Hawaii who enabled the United States to establish and maintain jurisdiction in remote equatorial islands as prolonged conflict in the Pacific led to World War II. | Referred To | Nov 17, 2016 |
| HR 6115 | Canyon Village Land Conveyance Act | Referred To | Oct 3, 2016 |
| HR 6081 | Moapa Band of Paiutes Land Conveyance Act | Referred To | Sep 26, 2016 |
| HR 5780 | Utah Public Lands Initiative Act | Discharged From | Sep 22, 2016 |
Hearings, markups and business meetings, newest first. In the 114th Congress.
| Kind | Subject | Status | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hearing | Oversight Hearing Titled: “The President’s Fiscal Year 2017 Funding Priorities and Impacts on Indian Country and Insular Areas.”4 witnesses
| Scheduled | Mar 22, 2016 |
| Hearing | Oversight Hearing Titled: “The Need for the Establishment of a Puerto Rico Financial Stability and Economic Growth Authority.”5 witnesses
| Rescheduled | Feb 2, 2016 |
| Hearing | Legislative hearing (Part II) on the following bill: H.R. 3764 (Rep. Rob Bishop), To provide that an Indian group may receive Federal acknowledgment as an Indian tribe only by an Act of Congress, and for other purposes. “Tribal Recognition Act of 2015.” | Scheduled | Dec 8, 2015 |
| Hearing | Legislative hearing on the following bills: H.R. 2009 (Rep. Raúl Grijalva), To provide for the conveyance of certain land inholdings owned by the United States to the Tucson Unified School District and to the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona. “Pascua Yaqui Tribe Land Conveyance Act of 2015”; H.R. 2719 (Rep. Derek Kilmer), To amend the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to authorize grants to Indian tribes to further achievement of tribal coastal zone objectives, and for other purposes. “Tribal Coastal Resiliency Act”; and H.R. 3079 (Rep. Tom McClintock), To take certain Federal land located in Tuolumne County, California, into trust for the benefit of the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians, and for other purposes.7 witnesses
| Scheduled | Nov 4, 2015 |
| Hearing | Legislative hearing on the following bill: H.R. 3764 (Rep. Rob Bishop), To provide that an Indian group may receive Federal acknowledgment as an Indian tribe only by an Act of Congress, and for other purposes. “Tribal Recognition Act of 2015.”1 witness
| Scheduled | Oct 28, 2015 |
| Hearing | Legislative hearing on the following bills:H.R. 1880 (Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham), To require the Secretary of the Interior to take into trust 4 parcels of Federal land for the benefit of certain Indian Pueblos in the State of New Mexico. “Albuquerque Indian School Land Transfer Act”;H.R. 2388 (Rep. Don Young), To reverse the designation by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture of certain communities in the State of Alaska as nonrural. “Subsistence Access Management Act of 2015.”3 witnesses
| Scheduled | Jul 22, 2015 |
| Hearing | Oversight hearing titled, "Examining procedures regarding Puerto Rico’s political status and economic outlook." | Scheduled | Jun 24, 2015 |
| Hearing | Legislative hearing on the following bills: H.R. 1157 (LaMalfa), Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians Land Transfer Act of 2015; H.R. 2386 (Young of AK), the Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act; and H.R. 2538 (Huffman), the Lytton Rancheria Homelands Act of 2015.7 witnesses
| Scheduled | Jun 17, 2015 |
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