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Senate Indian Affairs oversight hearing on NIGC
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Filed Under: Politics

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee held an oversight hearing this morning on National Indian Gaming Commission.

The hearing is the committee's second on gaming since the start of the 110th Congress. A June 2007 hearing looked into the regulation of Class III gaming.

This time, the committee will be looking at general issues of the NIGC "to make sure they're fulfilling their mission," staffer Allison Binney said last month at the National Congress of American Indians winter session in Washington, D.C. "We're really agency-focused, making sure agencies are fulfilling their obligations to you."

The hearing started at 10:30am and lasted about 90 minutes. Audio clips can be downloaded below:
Opening Statement

Testimony [8.4MB] | Q&A [10.2MB]

Panel 1
THE HONORABLE PHILIP HOGEN
Chairman, National Indian Gaming Commission

THE HONORABLE DELIA CARLYLE
Chairwoman, Arizona Indian Gaming Association, Ak Chin Indian Community

THE HONORABLE J.R MATHEWS
Board Member and Vice-Chairman, Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma
Accompanied by: MARK VAN NORMAN, Executive Director, National Indian Gaming Association, Washington, DC

MR. BRIAN PATTERSON
President, United South and Eastern Tribes

MR. KURT LUGER
Executive Director, Great Plains Indian Gaming Association

MS. KATHRYN RAND J.D., University of North Dakota School of Law
Accompanied by: STEVEN LIGHT, PhD., Co-Directors, Institute for the Study of Tribal Gaming Law and Policy, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND

Committee Notice:
OVERSIGHT HEARING of the National Indian Gaming Commission (April 17, 2008)



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