[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 31 (Monday, February 23, 2009)]
[House]
[Pages H1623-H1626]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    HONORING APACHE LEADER GOYATHLAY

  Ms. BORDALLO. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and agree to 
the resolution (H. Res. 132) honoring the life and memory of the 
Chiricahua Apache leader Goyathlay or Goyaale, also known as Geronimo, 
and recognizing the 100th anniversary of his death on February 17, 
2009, as a time of reflection and the commencement of a ``Healing'' for 
all Apache people.
  The Clerk read the title of the resolution.
  The text of the resolution is as follows:

                              H. Res. 132

       Whereas Goyathlay or Goyaale, called Geronimo by the 
     soldiers against whom he fought, was born in June 1829 to the 
     Bedonkohe band of the Apache people in No-Doyohn Canyon on 
     the Gila River, which was then part of Mexico;
       Whereas in 1858, Mexican soldiers attacked the Bedonkohe 
     people within the current borders of Mexico, setting in 
     motion a war between that nation and the Apache that would 
     last for three decades;
       Whereas Goyathlay, a spiritual and intellectual leader, 
     became recognized as a great military leader by his people 
     because of his courage, determination, and skill;
       Whereas Goyathlay led his people in a war of self-defense 
     as their homeland was invaded by the citizens and armies 
     first of Mexico, and then of the United States;
       Whereas that homeland was healthy, thriving, and beautiful 
     with ample running water, extensive grasslands, and ancient 
     forests and was a place beloved and revered by the Apache 
     people, who had lived there for countless generations;
       Whereas Goyathlay's band, along with other Apache peoples, 
     were forcibly removed by the United States Army, interned at 
     San Carlos, Arizona, subjugated, and deprived of their rights 
     as a free people, including the right to practice their 
     traditional spiritual beliefs and maintain long-standing 
     political and social structures;
       Whereas Goyathlay led fewer than 150 men, women, and 
     children out of captivity and for several years evaded 
     fighting forces consisting of one-quarter of the standing 
     United States Army, as well as thousands of Mexican soldiers;
       Whereas upon surrendering to Unites States forces, 
     Goyathlay and his band were promised a return to their 
     homeland but were instead interned in military prisons in 
     Florida and Alabama, far from their homeland;
       Whereas Goyathlay, promised respect as a prisoner of war, 
     was put to hard labor for eight years;
       Whereas Goyathlay and other Apache prisoners of war were 
     removed to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in 1894;
       Whereas after his death on February 17, 1909, Goyathlay was 
     not granted the promised return to his homeland but instead 
     was buried in the military cemetery at Fort Sill;
       Whereas Goyathlay's byname, ``Geronimo'', became a war cry 
     uttered by paratroopers fighting against the totalitarian 
     enemies of the United States during World War II, a name used 
     with respect and honor for a great warrior and leader;
       Whereas to this day, the Apache people continue to honor 
     and hold sacred what Goyathlay represented to a people 
     separated and destroyed by historic and disruptive United 
     States governmental policies of the past; and
       Whereas there still exists a need for spiritual healing 
     among Apache people, stemming from the captivity and 
     mistreatment of their ancestors under past policies of the 
     United States Government, that can commence by honoring the 
     memory of Goyathlay and his valiant efforts to preserve 
     traditional Apache ways of life and the health of 
     Ni'gosdza'n, the Earth: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
       (1) honors the life of Goyathlay, his extraordinary 
     bravery, and his commitment to the defense of his homeland, 
     his people, and Apache ways of life; and
       (2) recognizes the 100 anniversary of the death of 
     Goyathlay as a time of reflection of his deeds on behalf of 
     his people.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentlewoman from 
Guam (Ms. Bordallo) and the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Bishop) each will 
control 20 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Guam.


                             General Leave

  Ms. BORDALLO. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members 
may have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and 
include extraneous material on the resolution under consideration.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentlewoman from Guam?
  There was no objection.
  Ms. BORDALLO. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, House Resolution 132 honors the life and the memory of 
the great Apache leader known to many of us as Geronimo. Last week, 
February 17 marked the 100th anniversary of his death.
  Geronimo began as the spiritual and intellectual leader of his 
people. Circumstance, in the manner of attack by the armies of first 
Mexico and then the United States, cultivated his keen military skill 
and determination.
  The story of Geronimo shows us some of the paradox that is the United 
States. We hunted this man as a perceived threat to the security of our 
young, developing Nation in the West. When he surrendered, we broke 
promises and mistreated him, ensuring he would never see his homeland 
again. Yet, half a century later, our U.S. paratroopers used the name 
of Geronimo as a battle cry against our enemies in World War II. Using 
the name ``Geronimo'' was meant to instill fear in

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the enemy below that they were about to meet a soldier as fierce and 
determined as the mighty Apache warrior.
  And now, a full century after the death of Geronimo, the United 
States House of Representatives stands to acknowledge the mistakes of 
our flawed, disruptive policies of the past and to honor this great 
man. With this resolution, we honor the life of the great Apache leader 
Geronimo, his skill, his bravery, and his incredible tenacity in 
defense of his homeland and his way of life.
  So I congratulate and thank our colleague, Mr. Grijalva of Arizona, 
for sponsoring this resolution, and I urge all of my colleagues to 
support the passage of House Resolution 132.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume
  Mr. Speaker, if today someone says the word ``Geronimo,'' it evokes 
thoughts of an icon of popular culture. It is unfortunate that in the 
reality of this Apache warrior's life and death there is not more 
interest of the importance for him than simply the pop culture that was 
developed during World War II.
  It was in fact in 1940, the night before the first mass jump, that 
paratroopers at Fort Benning were watching a 1939 movie named, oddly 
enough, ``Geronimo,'' in which the actor playing this hero yells his 
name as he leaps from a cliff into a river. Thus was born the phrase 
that has become known to more people than the actual life of the Native 
American leader we call Geronimo.
  This resolution notes the treatment of Geronimo and the Apache people 
at the hands of both the Mexican and the U.S. Governments. It should 
serve as a lesson that government is often prone to error, incompetence 
and corruption, and that the larger government grows in size and power, 
the more pronounced and frequent these errors and misdeeds and mistakes 
indeed are made.
  It should make us shudder to think in a matter of weeks how this 
Congress has spent more than $1 trillion of borrowed money to grow the 
size and power of the Federal Government. Today we see problems in this 
country, problems of poverty, problems of joblessness, hopefully not a 
massive increase in homelessness, but sometimes hopelessness, and that 
is a sure sign, and the question is whether big government actually is 
helping to overcome those issues or is a hindrance to the people in 
their ability to overcome those particular issues.
  This resolution I hope will inspire fresh thinking about the 
direction of our government with respect to all American citizens, 
Native Americans and non-Native Americans alike, and hopefully will 
inspire us to consider the road we as a country are taking, and if it 
is indeed to require greater responsibility for individuals, does it 
help with individuals being able to succeed on their own. That is the 
course, that is the question, and I think this resolution does move us 
in that direction to ask those kinds of pertinent questions that are 
important, not just for this specific individual, but pertinent for all 
of us.
  With that, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. BORDALLO. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the 
gentleman from American Samoa (Mr. Faleomavaega).
  (Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA asked and was given permission to revise and extend 
his remarks.)
  Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA. Mr. Speaker, I do want to commend the chairman of 
our Natural Resources Committee, Mr. Rahall, and the ranking member, 
Congressman Hastings, and especially my good friend, the chief sponsor 
of this legislation, the gentleman from Arizona, Mr. Grijalva, and a 
cosponsor, Congressman Dale Kildee. I know that our colleague Tom Cole 
would have loved to also have been an original cosponsor of this bill. 
Congressman Cole from Oklahoma is the only Native American Member of 
Congress that we have. He is a proud member of the Chickasaw Nation 
from the State of Oklahoma.
  Mr. Speaker, the name Geronimo evokes and brings to light other 
issues and I think something that we ought to be reminded of in light 
of our government's relationships and our treatment of the Native 
Americans, or American Indians.
  Geronimo, or as he was known when he was born, Goyathlay or Goyaale, 
his name means in the Chiricahua Apache language ``one who yawns.'' 
Interestingly enough, Geronimo was born in 1829. In 1851, a company of 
some 400 Mexican soldiers raided the Chiricahua campsite while Geronimo 
and his fellow warriors were away.

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  And as a result of this raid on their settlement, his wife, his 
children and mother were killed. The Chiricahua Apache--and, by the 
way, I wanted to note also, Mr. Speaker, that the place where Geronimo 
was born is now in Clifton, what is now known as the town of Clifton in 
Arizona, and I suspect this is probably why my colleague from Arizona 
wanted to make sure that there's proper recognition for this great 
Chiricahua Apache chief.
  What was stated here in the history, that his wife, his children, and 
his mother were killed by the soldiers, Mexican soldiers, the 
Chiricahua chief, Mangas Coloradas, sent Geronimo to join Cochise's 
warriors to fight and seek vengeance against the Mexican Army. In one 
of the many battles he fought, he repeatedly attacked Mexican soldiers 
with a knife, despite all the firing and the bullets that came his way, 
and so much so that the Mexicans were praying then for their own safety 
to their patron saint, Saint Jerome, or I suppose in Spanish it's 
Geronimo, and this is how the name Geronimo started ever since. Just 
wanted to give a little sense of history.
  Mr. Speaker, Geronimo was a military leader. He conducted raids in 
settlements along the Mexican and U.S. borders. And in geographical 
terms, you're talking about areas that stretch from Arizona, New 
Mexico, Texas and even what is now known as Mexico. Thousands of 
soldiers from both the U.S. and Mexican military forces tried to catch 
him for years and were unsuccessful in doing so, some 10 years, until 
finally Geronimo surrendered, only because, I suspect, of lack of food 
supplies and provisions and support for his little band of warriors and 
families.
  Geronimo was transferred to a military prison in Florida, and then it 
was at that time that the noted General Nelson Miles who, after years 
of trying to capture Geronimo, wrote in his journals a very interesting 
observation concerning this great Chiricahua warrior chief. And I quote 
from General Miles' journal. ``Everyone in Washington had now become 
convinced that there was no good in this old chief and he was, in fact, 
one of the lowest and most cruel of the savages of the American 
continent.'' That's not a very positive descriptive, I must say, of how 
people in those days described Native Americans.
  And in another part of General Miles' journal, he said, and I quote, 
and this is referring to Geronimo again, ``He was one of the brightest, 
most resolute, determined looking men that I have ever encountered. He 
had the clearest, sharpest, dark eye I have ever seen, unless it was 
that of General Sherman.''
  Mr. Speaker, Geronimo was eventually transferred to a military prison 
at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he died on 17 February 1909, and that's 
the premise of this resolution in celebrating the hundredth anniversary 
when this great Indian warrior chief passed away in 17 February 1909. 
The resolution before us, Mr. Speaker, honors this great Chiricahua 
Apache warrior.
  And I'm reminded, when you mention Geronimo, you also have to mention 
other great Native American warrior chiefs. I can think of Crazy Horse 
and Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, among the famous warrior chiefs of the 
Lakota or the Sioux Nation. I can think of Cochise, also a Chiricahua 
Apache warrior chief, or Quanah Parker, a Comanche chief, or Tecumseh, 
a chief of the Shawnee Nation, or Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Nation, 
or Chief Massasoit of the Wampanoag tribe, and I suspect that this is 
where the name of the State of Massachusetts had its origin from this 
great Indian, Native American tribal chief from the Wampanoag tribe. I 
can think also of Chief Pontiac of the Ottawa tribe, as well as Black 
Hawk of the Sac tribe.
  All of this, in essence, Mr. Speaker, and I want to share this with 
my colleagues. This resolution calls for a spiritual healing among the 
Apache people

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stemming from the captivity and the mistreatment of their ancestors 
under past policies of the U.S. Government. As I have said several 
times on this floor, Mr. Speaker, in terms of our treatment or 
mistreatment of Native Americans, ever since this country was founded, 
our first policy was to kill all the Indians. Then the next national 
policy was to assimilate all the Indians, make them part Americans. And 
then the next policy was let's not recognize them as Indians, and then 
they had to go through some procedures to be recognized as an Indian 
tribe.
  So it's really sad, when you think about it in those terms, Geronimo, 
yes, was a great warrior chief, but also a sad legacy, in some aspects, 
of our country's treatment of the Native American people. And I urge my 
colleagues to support this resolution. I think it's worthwhile to 
remember and to consider the life and the story of this great Apache 
Chiricahua chief, Goyathlay, or Geronimo.
  Mr. BISHOP of Utah. It is my pleasure to yield such time as he may 
consume to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Broun).
  Mr. BROUN of Georgia. I rise in support of this bill. And actually 
it's one of the very few truly constitutional things we've seen around 
here recently. This government has mistreated terribly the Native 
American population in this country, and I think it's fitting that we 
recognize and honor Chief Geronimo.
  I live in northeast Georgia, and I represent an area where the 
Cherokee Nation was and still have a lot of Cherokee people in the 
northern part of my district in northeast Georgia in the mountains. I 
also live in an area where the Creek Indians resided. And this 
government has terribly mistreated the Native American population, not 
only in the past, but they continue to do so. We need to make changes, 
policy changes to bring the Native American people into this 
government, into this Nation as true, full citizens of this country. 
And we're not doing that. And I support honoring Geronimo.
  Having said that, I also want to add that there are a lot of things 
that this Congress is doing that are deplorable besides the way we 
mistreat the Native American people. The way this budget bill that's 
going to be brought to the floor of this House this week I think is 
deplorable. Half trillion dollar omnibus bill. Most people don't 
understand that word ``omnibus,'' I don't think. It's hard for me, as a 
Georgian, to even pronounce it. So I don't expect a lot of people to 
understand what that means.
  But what happened in the last Congress is the majority decided not to 
pass any budget bills and put it off until this Congress because they 
were hoping that they would have a President who was more favorable to 
the marked expansion of government that we've already seen proposed in 
this new budget.
  Just before we went on this President's Day break, this House passed, 
the Senate passed, the President signed into law very quickly, without 
much debate or much discussion and, generally, without any ability of 
the American public to look at the bill, in spite of this House passing 
unanimously an instruction to our Members of the House not to bring it 
to this floor without the American public being able to view on-line, 
for 48 hours, the $1.1- or $1.2 trillion so-called stimulus bill. I 
call it a non-stimulus bill.
  We're going to have a bill come this week. We're not going to be able 
to amend it. We'll have very little debate. It's not even been produced 
in totality yet. And frankly, as I look at this Constitution, a lot of 
the things that we do in this House and in the Senate and the President 
and even in the courts are not according to the intent of our Founding 
Fathers. Article I, Section 8 enumerates a list of functions of the 
Federal Government. There are only 18 things we're supposed to be 
passing bills about, only 18. The 10th amendment of the Constitution 
says, by golly, we mean it. The 10th amendment says, if a function is 
not specifically given to the Federal Government, by the Constitution, 
in other words, those 18 things in Article I, Section 8, if it's not 
prohibited from the States, things that are prohibited in the States, 
setting up interstate tariffs and things like that, those rights are 
reserved for the States and the people. We pass bill after bill in this 
House that are totally unconstitutional. The Federal court system rules 
over and over again about the constitutionality of State law and 
Federal law and rule unconstitutionally according to the original 
intent.
  And we are spending our grandchildren's future. Our grandchildren are 
going to live at a lower standard of living than we do today because of 
these massive bills that we are passing in this Congress and we passed 
in the last Congress. It's totally objectionable, totally deplorable 
and totally unacceptable to me of how we're doing business in this 
Congress and how we did business in the last Congress. We've got to 
stop spending the future of America. We have to have a strong national 
defense and national security. Those things are constitutional. Those 
things should be the major function of the Federal Government.
  And I just call upon my colleagues in this House and my colleagues 
over in the Senate to just take a step back and look at what we're 
doing. We're killing the American entrepreneurial system. We're killing 
the free markets. We're killing the future economic well-being of our 
children and our grandchildren because of these huge spending bills. We 
can't debate them. We can't amend them. We can't do anything except for 
vote on them. And it's being shoved down the throats of the American 
people. And that's totally unacceptable to me.
  I ask my colleagues, liberal and conservative alike, to look at what 
we're doing. We've got to stop borrowing and spending America's future 
because it's not going to work. That's exactly what we're doing. We're 
robbing little Johnny and little Mary's piggy bank and their children's 
piggy bank to grow a bigger socialistic government. It has to stop. 
These huge spending bills are not going to solve the economic woes.
  Americans are hurting. We have to do something. But what we do, or 
what we've been doing here is growing a bigger government. What we've 
been doing here is basically putting in place tax policy and Federal 
policy that's going to destroy freedom in America. We've got to stop 
it. We cannot continue down this road. We're going down a road of 
socialism. We had this non-stimulus bill that was shoved down the 
throats of the American public, shoved down our throats in this House 
and in the Senate, and it's going to strangle the American economy, and 
it's going to kill America's economic future. It has to stop. And we 
need to stop it this week. We cannot continue these big spending bills.
  We don't even have regular order on all these bills that come to the 
floor of the House. We have bill after bill with tax increases, 
spending, that are brought under suspensions, passed by unanimous 
consent. I find that deplorable and unacceptable.
  We need to call this--as Americans, we need to call this House and 
this Senate back to regular order. We need to stop this destruction of 
freedom and this rapid move to socialism in America.
  I want to honor Geronimo. I want to honor the Apache people. They've 
done a fantastic job with their wildlife management. I wish I could 
afford to go out there and hunt sheep, elk or field deer. We have done 
a disservice to the Native American people and continue to do so. We 
did to Geronimo. And this bill will honor Geronimo.
  But we cannot continue the disservice to the American taxpayers, to 
our children and our grandchildren.

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  Ms. BORDALLO. Mr. Speaker, I have no additional requests for time and 
would inquire of the minority whether they have any additional 
speakers.
  Mr. BISHOP of Utah. May I ask how much time is remaining.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Utah has 9 minutes. The 
gentlewoman from Guam has 11 minutes.
  Mr. BISHOP of Utah. I would be willing to say a few words, and then 
we are done.
  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate once again Representative Grijalva for 
introducing this particular resolution. I am supportive of this 
resolution, as was Representative Broun, and as, I think, everyone who 
has spoken for it.
  It does, I think, do several things for us that are very positive. 
One is asking us to reconsider and to rethink the issues that have 
created the situations that happened around the life of this

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great man. Also, it is asking ourselves if we are doing those same 
issues today in a different sphere, in a different element. It is one 
of the reasons I have the same concerns the gentleman from Georgia has 
as to the direction in which we are going.
  We will be talking about an omnibus spending bill that will go on to 
an omnibus bailout bill that will go on top of an omnibus stimulus 
bill. We will be talking specifically about the foreclosure of homes 
and home prevention plans. I think there are some questions that we 
need to make sure that we have added so that there is ample time to 
discuss just as we have had ample time to discuss this resolution. 
These other issues need that kind of time.
  Whatever plan we have for homeowners, what will it do for the 90 
percent of the homeowners who are playing by the rules and paying by 
the rules? What will our plans do to compensate banks for bad mortgages 
they should never have made in the first place? Will individuals who 
misrepresented their income or assets on original mortgage applications 
be eligible to get taxpayer-funded assistance under these new plans? 
Will we require mortgage servicers to verify income and other 
eligibility standards before modifying existing mortgages? What will we 
do to prevent the same mortgages that receive assistance that are 
modified from going into default 3 or 6 or 8 months later? How do we 
intend to move forward in the drafting of this legislation? How much 
time will we have on the floor to discuss the details of this 
legislation? Will we have a chance to provide alternatives?
  In every issue we have had so far, there are grand alternatives that 
are out there, very little time to discuss what those alternatives are. 
That is a need that we have to do so we don't proceed down the road to 
make mistakes as was done in the past by a government to this 
particular individual.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. BORDALLO. Mr. Speaker, I would like to note that the chairman of 
the San Carlos Apache Tribe is observing our proceedings today, and so 
it is very fitting that the House supports the passage of House 
Resolution 132 in honor of the life of Geronimo.
  Mr. TEAGUE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commemorate the 100th year 
after the passing of Goyathlay. Goyathlay, more famously known as 
Geronimo, was a Chiricahua Apache leader who hailed from an area that 
is now part of the great State of New Mexico. He was born on the Gila 
River, which now lies in the southwestern part of my district.
  Goyathlay's actions on behalf of his people have been commemorated in 
legends, history, and film. His skill and indomitable spirit live on as 
a memorial to the Apache people and their culture. Goyathlay fought to 
preserve the Apache from what he saw to be an invading force, one that 
was foreign to him and did not understand his people's ways and 
beliefs.
  I am proud to say that today I have the privilege of representing the 
Apache people in the United States Congress. It is an honor to serve as 
their Representative. The values that they cherish, values that 
Goyathlay fought so hard to preserve, are still alive in them today.
  On the anniversary of Goyathlay's death, we hope that we as a people 
and Nation have moved beyond the differences that separated us 100 
years ago. We hope that we can begin a process to heal old wounds and 
ensure that everyone's voices are heard their needs are met.
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support 
of H. Res. 132, which recognizes the significance of the life and 
memory of the Chiricahua Apache leader Goyathlay or Goyaale, also known 
as Geronimo, and recognizing the 100th anniversary of his death on 
February 17, 2009, as a time of reflection and the commencement of a 
``healing'' for all Apache people.
  Mr. Speaker, to the apaches, it is proclaimed that Geronimo embodied 
the very essence of the Apache values: aggressiveness, courage in the 
face of difficulty. The slaughter of Geronimo's family when he was a 
young man turned him from a peaceful Indian into a bold warrior.
  Originally named Goyathlay (``One Who Yawns'') he joined a fierce 
band of Apaches known as Chiricahuas and with them took part in raids 
in northern Mexico and across the border into U.S. territory which are 
now known as the States of New Mexico and Arizona. Geronimo was the 
last Apache fighting force. He became the most famous Apache of all for 
standing against the U.S. government and for holding out the longest. 
He was a great Apache medicine man, a great spiritual leader.
  Geronimo was highly sought by Apache chiefs for his wisdom. He is 
said to have had magical powers. He could see into the future and walk 
without creating footprints. Geronimo devoted his life to service and 
leadership, as evidenced in his words, ``I cannot think that we are 
useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down 
on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, 
the winds are all listening to what we have to say.''
  Mr. Speaker, Geronimo became a ``spokesman'' for Native American ways 
of life and their culture. He represented the Apache heritage. He is 
the known name when it comes to the Apache tribe. He is known for 
holding out against overwhelming odds. His name is a character that 
kids know when they, play Indians.
  Mr. Speaker, Geronimo should be remembered not as a violent Indian, 
but a Native American fighting for the freedom of his followers and his 
Apache people; fighting with something behind it. Not just fighting to 
fight, fighting for his ways of life. That is why he should be 
remembered.
  Mr. LUJAN. Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to 
recognize and affirm my support for H. Res. 132, to honor the great 
Apache leader Geronimo and recognize the 100th anniversary of his death 
as a time of reflection and healing for all Apache people.
  My congressional district is rich in culture and tradition. I 
recognize and respect the importance of tribal sovereignty and 
government-to-government relationships. My district includes the Navajo 
Nation, the Jicarilla Apache Nation, and 15 of the 19 Pueblos in the 
State of New Mexico.
  All of these tribes add to our diverse culture in their own ways. My 
family and I have always treasured and respected the unique history and 
heritage of Native American people in New Mexico and across the U.S.
  As the Congressman from New Mexico's Third Congressional District, I 
am looking forward to working in partnership with tribal governments 
and with my colleagues in the House of Representatives to find 
solutions to the problems facing Indian country today.
  I urge my colleagues to support this resolution, honoring the life 
and memory of the great Apache leader Geronimo.
  Ms. BORDALLO. Mr. Speaker, I have no additional requests for time, 
and I yield back the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Clay). The question is on the motion 
offered by the gentlewoman from Guam (Ms. Bordallo) that the House 
suspend the rules and agree to the resolution, H. Res. 132.
  The question was taken; and (two-thirds being in the affirmative) the 
rules were suspended and the resolution was agreed to.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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