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Mormons and Sioux: 'Jim you can't do this!'
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2002 Wyoming's only Congresswoman, a Republican, feels shafted by her own party leadership on a bill to sell 1,000 acres of federal land to the Mormon Church. Rep. Barbara Cubin said she learned about the GOP tactics only by calling Democrats on the House Resources Committee. By that time, it was too late -- committee chairman Rep. Jim Hansen (R-Utah), who is retiring, and the House Republican leadership were tacking on the land sale to a $27 million Sioux tribal compensation bill. "Jim, you can't do this!" Cubin said to Hansen, relaying the conversation to The Salt Lake Tribune. Hansen also shepherded a land swap bill amid two investigations at the Department of Interior. Secretary Gale Norton has been ordered to look into a $100 million "giveaway" in Utah and the DOI Inspector General has launched a probe. Get the Story:
House Passes Land Swap (The Salt Lake Tribune 10/2)
LDS Letter Targets Cove Sale Opponents (The Salt Lake Tribune 10/2) Today on Indianz.Com:
Republicans change Sioux land bill (10/2) Get the Bill:
H.R.4103 (To direct the Secretary of the Interior to transfer certain public lands in Natrona County, Wyoming, to the Corporation of the Presiding Bishop, and for other purposes) Related Stories:
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