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This raises huge questions about the authorities of States and Tribes to access the best scientific data and manage a regional resource. Congress was clear 26 years ago when it passed the Northwest Power Act laying out the roles and responsibilities of tribes and federal and state fishery agencies. If this stands, it says that any member of Congress, behind closed doors, can undo a decades-long effort with words hidden in a legislative report.

Tribes have a very unique status. Congress can pass laws that affect just Indian tribes. They've always been part of the political process _ not just giving money, but in a lot of ways. To suggest that it is just to protect their economic interests simply is not true.

Larry Rosenthal

Tribes have proven time and again that we are a good federal investment. Through the exercise of our inherent self-governing powers, tribes are able to contract and compact federal programs for the benefit of both Indian and surrounding communities.

Whether it's the courts or regional offices of executive agencies, members of Congress want some control over how things are done in their states or districts. As long as they have some influence over the picks, they like the patronage system.

Unless we take significant steps to address that, it's going to continue to be the problem. States have attempted to address this, but are somewhat constrained in what they're allowed to do. It raises the question of why Congress is not taking steps to amend this. As long as Congress doesn't act, I think you're going to see states be as creative as they can in doing something themselves.

The idea that CNIGA should be drafting or crafting anything that binds other tribes in terms of compact negotiations is pretty transparent to me. It's the big tribes that don't want other tribes to get compacts. They want to control that process.

We all have a right to know where she stands on these basic issues. And I hope this puts to bed this notion that it's not a legitimate thing for the United States Congress to find out where a nominee stands on the fundamental constitutional questions facing her.

Ted Stevens and Don Young are at it again. Overreaching behind closed doors to slip a controversial attack on the environment that they know couldn't get through the normal legislative process into important national security legislation. Congress should reject this scheme.

Congress has a duty to taxpayers to make informed decisions when carrying out its legislative, appropriation, and oversight functions. Such decisions require access to timely and accurate information, and when access is restricted, we are unable to provide oversight and fulfill our constitutional responsibilities.

Access equals power in Washington, and few people have greater access than a former member of Congress. We believe the public has the right to know how frequently their elected representatives change their allegiances and become lobbyists.

The U.S. and Europeans have for years accepted entirely exaggerated data. Now Congress has some very tough questions to ask, including how its own State Department and the CIA could have been duped and what do to regarding future aid.

Bennet Zimmerman

We want Congress to either put a stop to these unreasonable burdens on the tribes or settle the litigation.

Does he [the president] possess the power of making war? That power is exclusively vested in Congress. . . . It is the exclusive province of Congress to change a state of peace into a state of war.

William Paterson (1919-)

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