S. 660Senate109th Congress (2005-2007)In Committee

Lumbee Recognition Act

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Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 606.

September 13, 2006

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Introduced in Senate

March 17, 2005

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

Indian Affairs Committee

March 17, 2005

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Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 109-610.

Indian Affairs Committee

July 12, 2006

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Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.

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August 2, 2006

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Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator McCain without amendment. With written report No. 109-334.

Indian Affairs Committee

September 13, 2006

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Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 606.

September 13, 2006

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Sen. Ted StevensR-AK · Aug 2, 2006

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Armed Services be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on August 2, 2006, at 2 p.m., in open session to continue to receive…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Armed Services be authorized to meet during the session of the

Senate on August 2, 2006, at 2 p.m., in open session to continue to receive testimony on the future of military commissions in light of the supreme court decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Armed Services be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Wednesday, August 2, 2006, at 5 p.m., in closed session, regarding overhead imagery systems.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Wednesday, August 2, 2006, at 10 a.m. to mark up an original bill entitled ``Credit Rating Agency Reform Act of 2006.''

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on August 2, 2006, at 2:30 p.m., to conduct a hearing on ``Meeting the Housing Needs of Veterans.''

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on August 2, 2006, at 11:30 a.m., to purpose of this meeting is to consider the nominations of John Ray Correll, Mark Myers, and Drue Pearce.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that on Wednesday, August 2, 2006, at 9:30 a.m. the Committee on Environment and Public Works be authorized to hold an oversight hearing to discuss The Toxic Substances Control Act and the Chemicals Management Program at EPA.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Finance be authorized to meet during the session on Wednesday, August 2, 2006, at 10 a.m., in 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building, to hear testimony on ``Border Insecurity, Take Two: Fake IDs Foil the First Line of Defense.''

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Wednesday, August 2, 2006, at 9:30 a.m. to hold a hearing on nominations.

The PRESIDING, OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions meet in executive session during the session of the Senate on Wednesday, August, 2, 2006, off the Senate floor at a time to be determined later.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs be authorized to meet on Wednesday, August 2, 2006, at 10 a.m. for a hearing titled, ``Iraq Reconstruction: Lessons Learned in Contracting and Procurement.''

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Indian Affairs be authorized to meet on Wednesday, August 2, 2006, at 9:30 a.m. in Room 485 of the Russell Senate Office Building to conduct a business meeting on S. 374, the Tribal Parity Act; S. 480, the Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2005; S. 660, the Lumbee Recognition Act; S. 1439, the Indian Trust Reform Act of 2005; and S. 1535, the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Equitable Compensation Amendments Act of 2005.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet to conduct a hearing on ``The Authority to Prosecute Terrorists Under the War Crime Provisions of Title 18'' on Wednesday, August 2, 2006, at 9:30 a.m. in Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 226.

Panel I: Steven Bradbury, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice, Washington, DC; General Richard B. Myers, Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, DC; Major General Scott Black, The Judge Advocate General, United States Army, Washington, DC; Rear Admiral Bruce MacDonald, Judge Advocate General, United States Navy, Washington, DC; Major General Jack Rives, the Judge Advocate General, United States Air Force, Washington, DC, and Brigadier General Kevin M. Sandkuhler, Director, Judge Advocate Division, United States Marine Corps, Washington, DC.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Select Committee on Intelligence be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on August 2, 2006, at 2:30 p.m. to hold a closed business meeting.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights be authorized to meet on Wednesday, August 2, 2006, at 2:30 p.m. to conduct a hearing on ``Paying Your Own Way: Creating a Fair Standard for Attorney's Fees Awards in Establishment Clause Cases'' in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

Witness list

Rees Lloyd, Commander of District 21, The American Legion Department of California, Banning, CA; Marc Stern, Assistant Executive Director, American Jewish Congress, New York, NY; Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman, Liberty Counsel, Interim Dean, Liberty University School of Law, Lynchburg, VA; Melissa Rogers, Visiting Professor of Religion and Public Policy, Wake Forest University Divinity School, Winston-Salem, NC; Shannon Woodruff, Senior Research Counsel, American Center for Law and Justice, Washington, D.C.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Subcommittee on Forestry, Conservation and Rural Revitalization of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry be authorized to conduct a hearing during the session of the Senate on August 2, 2006, at 9 a.m. in SR-328A, Senate Russell Building. The purpose of this subcommittee hearing will be to discuss H.R. 4200, the Forest Emergency Recovery and Research Act.

Sen. Judd GreggR-NH · Jul 12, 2006

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on July 12, 2006, at 10:30 a.m., to conduct a hearing on the nominations of Mr. Frederic S. Mishkin, of New York, to be a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Ms. Linda Mysliwy Conlin, of New Jersey, to be first Vice President of the Export-Import Bank; Mr. Geoffrey S. Bacino, of Illinois, to be a Director of the Federal Housing Finance Board; Mr. Edmund C. Moy, of Wisconsin, to be Director of the Mint; and Mr. J. Joseph Grandmaison, of New Hampshire, to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Wednesday, July 12, 2006, at 11:30 a.m. The purpose of this meeting is to consider the nomination of Marc Spitzer of Arizona to be a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Finance be authorized to meet during the session on Wednesday, July 12, 2006, at 10 a.m., in 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building, to hear testimony on ``S. 3495--A bill to authorize the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the products of Vietnam''.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Wednesday, July 12, 2006, at 9:30 a.m. to hold a hearing on Multilateral Development Banks.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Indian Affairs be authorized to meet on Wednesday, July 12, 2006, at 9:30 a.m., in Room 106 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing on S. 660, the Lumbee Recognition Act.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate

Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet to conduct a hearing on Examining the Need for Comprehensive Immigration Reform Part II'' on Wednesday, July 12, 2006, at 9:30 a.m. in Hart Senate Office Building Room 216.

Witness list

Panel I: The Honorable Carlos M. Gutierrez, Secretary of Commerce, Washington, DC.

Panel II: Mr. Michael W. Cutler, Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies, Washington, DC, Mr. Ben Johnson, Director, Immigration Policy Center, Washington, DC, Dr. William McDonald, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, and Deputy Director, Institute of Criminal Law and Procedure, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, Mr. Niall O'Dowd, Founder and Chairman, The Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform, New York, NY.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate for a hearing entitled ``Strengthening Participation of Small Businesses in Federal Contracting and Innovation Research Programs,'' on Wednesday, July 12, 2006, beginning at 10:30 a.m. in Room 428A of the Russell Senate Office Building.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Select Committee on Intelligence be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on July 12, 2006, at 2:30 p.m. to hold a closed briefing.

Sen. John McCainR-AZ · Jul 31, 2006

Mr. President, I would like to announce that the Committee on Indian Affairs will meet on Wednesday, August 2, 2006, at 9:30 a.m. in Room 485 of the Russell Senate Office Building to conduct a…

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Reported to SenateIssued September 13, 2006

        [Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 660 Reported in Senate (RS)]

Calendar No. 606
109th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 660

[Report No. 109-334]

To provide for the acknowledgment of the Lumbee Tribe of North
Carolina, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

March 17, 2005

Mrs. Dole (for herself, Mr. Burr, and Mr. Crapo) introduced the
following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on
Indian Affairs

September 13, 2006

Reported by Mr. McCain, without amendment

_______________________________________________________________________

A BILL

To provide for the acknowledgment of the Lumbee Tribe of North
Carolina, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ``Lumbee Recognition Act''.

SEC. 2. PREAMBLE.

The preamble to the Act of June 7, 1956 (70 Stat. 254), is
amended--
(1) by striking ``and'' at the end of each clause;
(2) by striking ``: Now, therefore,'' at the end of the
last clause and inserting a semicolon; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:

``Whereas the Lumbee Indians of Robeson and adjoining counties in North Carolina
are descendants of coastal North Carolina Indian tribes, principally
Cheraw, and have remained a distinct Indian community since the time of
contact with white settlers;
``Whereas since 1885 the State of North Carolina has recognized the Lumbee
Indians as an Indian tribe;
``Whereas in 1956 the Congress of the United States acknowledged the Lumbee
Indians as an Indian tribe, but withheld from the Lumbee Tribe the
benefits, privileges and immunities to which the Tribe and its members
otherwise would have been entitled by virtue of the Tribe's status as a
federally recognized Indian tribe; and
``Whereas the Congress finds that the Lumbee Indians should now be entitled to
full Federal recognition of their status as an Indian tribe and that the
benefits, privileges and immunities that accompany such status should be
accorded to the Lumbee Tribe: Now, therefore,''.

SEC. 3. FEDERAL RECOGNITION.

The Act of June 7, 1956 (70 Stat. 254), is amended--
(1) by striking the last sentence of the first section; and
(2) by striking section 2 and inserting the following:

``SEC. 2. RECOGNITION.

``(a) In General.--Federal recognition is extended to the Lumbee
Tribe of North Carolina. All laws and regulations of the United States
of general application to Indians and Indian tribes shall apply to the
Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina and its members.
``(b) Petition.--Notwithstanding the first section, any group of
Indians in Robeson and adjoining counties, North Carolina, whose
members are not enrolled in the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina as
determined under section 3(c), may petition under part 83 of title 25,
Code of Federal Regulations (or any successor regulation) for
acknowledgment of tribal existence.

``SEC. 3. ELIGIBILITY FOR SERVICES AND BENEFITS.

``(a) In General.--
``(1) Services and benefits.--The Lumbee Tribe of North
Carolina and its members shall be eligible for all services and
benefits provided to Indians because of their status as members
of a federally recognized Indian tribe.
``(2) Residence on or near reservation.--For the purposes
of the delivery of such services, members of the Tribe residing
in Robeson, Cumberland, Hoke, and Scotland counties in North
Carolina shall be deemed to be residing on or near an Indian
reservation.
``(b) Determination of Needs and Budget.--
``(1) In general.--On verification by the Secretary of the
Interior of a tribal roll under subsection (c), the Secretary
of the Interior and the Secretary of Health and Human Services
shall develop, in consultation with the Lumbee Tribe of North
Carolina, a determination of needs and budget to provide the
services to which members of the Tribe are eligible.
``(2) Inclusion in budget request.--The Secretary of the
Interior and the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall
each submit a written statement of those needs and a budget
with the first budget request submitted to Congress after the
fiscal year in which the tribal roll is verified.
``(c) Tribal Roll.--
``(1) In general.--For purposes of the delivery of Federal
services, the tribal roll in effect on the date of enactment of
this section shall, subject to verification by the Secretary of
the Interior, define the service population of the Tribe.
``(2) Verification.--The Secretary's verification shall be
limited to confirming compliance with the membership criteria
set out in the Tribe's constitution adopted on November 11,
2000, which verification shall be completed not less than 1
year after the date of enactment of this section.

``SEC. 4. FEE LAND.

``Fee land that the Tribe seeks to convey to the United States to
be held in trust shall be treated by the Secretary of the Interior as
on-reservation trust acquisitions under part 151 of title 25 Code of
Federal Regulations (or any successor regulation) if the land is
located within Robeson County, North Carolina.

``SEC. 5. STATE JURISDICTION.

``(a) In General.--The State of North Carolina shall exercise
jurisdiction over--
``(1) all criminal offenses that are committed on; and
``(2) all civil actions that arise on;
land located within the state of North Carolina that is owned by, or
held in trust by the United States for, the Lumbee Tribe of North
Carolina, or any dependent Indian community of the Lumbee Tribe of
North Carolina.
``(b) Transfer.--
``(1) In general.--The Secretary of the Interior may accept
on behalf of the United States, after consulting with the
Attorney General of the United States, any transfer by the
State of North Carolina to the United States of any portion of
the jurisdiction of the State of North Carolina described in
paragraph (1) under an agreement between the Lumbee Tribe and
the State of North Carolina.
``(2) Effective date.--A transfer of jurisdiction under
paragraph (1) shall not take effect until 2 years after the
effective date of the agreement.
``(c) Effect of Section.--This section shall not affect the
application of section 109 of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (25
U.S.C. 1919).

``SEC. 6. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

``There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are
necessary to carry out this Act.''.
Calendar No. 606

109th CONGRESS

2d Session

S. 660

[Report No. 109-334]

_______________________________________________________________________

A BILL

To provide for the acknowledgment of the Lumbee Tribe of North
Carolina, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

September 13, 2006

Reported without amendment