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Chairman urges Congress to act on Alice Spotted Bear and Walter Sobolev Commission recommendations
Summary
The chairman recounted the commission's work traveling across Indian country, described its report 'The Way Forward,' and urged that Congress convert the commission's recommendations into law rather than letting the report 'sit on a shelf.'
The chairman described bipartisan work that led to establishment of the Alice Spotted Bear and Walter Sobolev Commission on Native Children and said the commission traveled through Indian country, collecting testimony and recommendations. He called the commission's final report "The Way Forward" and argued Congress should implement, not shelve, its recommendations.
He said commissioners visited communities across the country, documented hardships and resilience, and presented a set of concrete recommendations to the committee. The chairman framed the Native Children's Commission Implementation Act as the legislative vehicle to put those recommendations into practice and emphasized that the bill reflects a decade of listening to tribal leaders, families and youth.
The chairman repeated that communities and their leaders should lead solutions and described the legislation as a product of hearings, roundtables and multiple drafts that incorporated tribal feedback. He urged colleagues to sponsor the bill and to convert the report's recommendations into meaningful action.
