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Senate Committee on Indian Affairs elects Murkowski chair, adopts rules and funding resolution
Summary
At its organizational meeting for the 119th Congress, the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs elected Sen. Lisa Murkowski chair and Sen. Brian Schatz vice chair, adopted committee rules unchanged, and approved a committee funding resolution by voice vote.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, chair of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, was elected chair and Sen. Brian Schatz was elected vice chair at the committee's organizational meeting, where members also adopted the committee's standing rules and a committee funding resolution.
Murkowski opened the meeting by saying the committee would “come to order” and that members share “a desire to accomplish good things” for Native people. She described the committee's jurisdiction as wide-ranging — including education, transportation, public safety and forestry — and cited recent bipartisan accomplishments during the previous Congress, including VAWA 2022 and investments from the…
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