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Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee

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House Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs

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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
12

Served in the 116th Congress

Meetings
20

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.

Record

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

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

KindSubjectStatusDate
Hearing"Reviewing the Broken Promises Report: Examining the Chronic Federal Funding Shortfalls in Indian Country"Longworth House Office Building 1334
9 witnesses
  • Mr. Jason Friehage, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior
  • The Honorable Patricia Timmons-Goodson, Vice Chair, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
  • Dr. Anna Ortiz, Director, Natural Resources and Environment, U.S. Government Accountability Office
  • RADM Chris Buchanan, Deputy Director for Indian Health Service, U.S. Department of the Interior
  • Ms. Stacy Bohlen, Chief Executive Officer, National Indian Health Board
  • The Honorable Jonodev Chaudhuri, Ambassador, Muscogee Creek Nation
  • The Honorable Fawn Sharp, President, National Congress of American Indians
  • Ms. Francys Crevier, Executive Director, National Council of Urban Indian Health
  • The Honorable Marilynn Malerba, Secretary, USET Sovereignty Protection Fund
ScheduledNov 19, 2019
HearingLegislative Hearing on H.R. 4957Longworth House Office Building 1324
5 witnesses
  • Rear Admiral Lower Half Brandon Taylor, Chief of Staff, Indian Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Ms. Aurene Martin, Board Member, National Indian Child Welfare Association
  • Ms. Anita Fineday, Managing Director, Indian Child Welfare Program, Casey Family Programs
  • Dr. Art Martinez, Tribal Child Welfare Specialist, Tribal Law and Policy Institute
  • Mr. Spike Bighorn, Acting Deputy Bureau Director, Office of Indian Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior
ScheduledNov 13, 2019
HearingLegislative Hearing: H.R. 3160 and S. 46Longworth House Office Building 1324
2 witnesses
  • Mr. Donald Wharton, Senior Attorney, Native American Rights Fund
  • The Honorable Stephen Lewis, Governor, Gila River Indian Community
ScheduledOct 16, 2019
Hearing"Advance Appropriations: Protecting Tribal Communities from the Effects of a Government Shutdown" (H.R. 1128, H.R. 1135)Longworth House Office Building 1324
9 witnesses
  • Ms. Verné Boerner, President and CEO, Alaska Native Health Board; Inupiaq (Village of Kiana)
  • The Honorable Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, Board of Directors, United South and Eastern Tribes SPF; Chairwoman, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head
  • The Honorable Janet Wak Wak Nicholson, Colville Business Council Member, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
  • The Honorable Betty McCollum, Member of Congress
  • The Honorable Don Young, Member of Congress
  • The Honorable Aaron Payment, 1st Vice President, The National Congress of American Indians; Chairman, Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians
  • The Honorable Victoria Kitcheyan, Chairperson, the National Indian Health Board; Tribal Council Member, Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska
  • Mr. Jason Freihage, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Management, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior
  • Rear Admiral Lower Half Michael Weahkee, Principal Deputy Director, The Indian Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
ScheduledSep 25, 2019
HearingLegislative Hearing on H.R. 1312, S. 216, H.R. 3846, H.R. 4153.Longworth House Office Building 1324
11 witnesses
  • The Honorable Jared Huffman, Member of Congress
  • The Honorable Ro Khanna, Member of Congress
  • The Honorable Ben Luján, Member of Congress
  • The Honorable Carol Evans, Chairwoman, Spokane Tribe of Indians
  • Rear Admiral Lower Half Chris Buchanan, Deputy Director of the Indian Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • The Honorable Joe James, Chairman, The Yurok Tribe
  • The Honorable Timothy Manchego, Governor, Pueblo of Santa Ana
  • Ms. Sonya Tetnowski, CEO, Santa Clara Valley Indian Health Center
  • Ms. Sonya Baskerville, Manager of National Relations, Bonneville Power Administration
  • The Honorable Garth Sundberg, Sr., Chairman, Trinidad Rancheria
  • Mr. Darryl LaCounte, Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior
ScheduledSep 19, 2019
Hearing"Reviewing the Trump Administration's Approach to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) Crisis"Longworth House Office Building 1324
3 witnesses
  • The Honorable John Anderson, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico, U.S. Department of Justice
  • Mr. Charles Addington, Deputy Bureau Director, Office of Justice Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior
  • The Honorable Jeannie Hovland, Commissioner, The Administration for Native Americans, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
ScheduledSep 11, 2019
HearingH.R. 2414, H.R. 2031, H.R. 895, H.R. 396.Longworth House Office Building 1334
8 witnesses
  • The Honorable Debra Haaland, (NM-01)
  • The Honorable Dusty Johnson, (SD-At Large)
  • The Honorable Raul Grijalva, (AZ-03)
  • Ms. Cecelia Firethunder, President, The Oglala Lakota Nation Education Coalition
  • Mr. Darryl LaCounte, Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior
  • Mr. Eric Eberhard, Chair of the Board of Trustees, The Morris K. and Stewart L. Udall Foundation
  • The Honorable W. Allen, Chairman of the Board, The Self-Governance Communication & Education Tribal Consortium
  • The Honorable Douglas Lankford, Chief, The Miami Tribe of Oklahoma
RescheduledJul 16, 2019
Hearing"Tribal Infrastructure: Roads, Bridges, and Buildings"Longworth House Office Building 1324
3 witnesses
  • The Honorable Darrell Seki, Chairman, Red Lake Nation
  • Mr. LeRoy Gishi, Chief, The Division of Transportation, Bureau of Indian Affairs
  • The Honorable Martin Harvier, President, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community
RescheduledJul 11, 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.

CongressMembersBills referredBecame lawMeetings
119th2025–2026, sitting1440418
118th2023–2024052626
117th2021–202215139716
116th2019–202012140820
115th2017–201813127817
114th2015–201612127713
113th2013–201412103107
112th2011–2012129090

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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.