[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 128 (Wednesday, September 22, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Page S7364]
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                   MODIFYING TRIBAL LEASE PROVISIONS

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 508, S. 2906.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 2906) to amend the Act of August 9, 1955, to 
     modify a provision relating to leases involving certain 
     Indian tribes.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill, 
which had been reported from the Committee on Indian Affairs, with 
amendments, as follows:

                                S. 2906

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. LEASES INVOLVING CERTAIN INDIAN TRIBES.

       The first section of the Act of August 9, 1955 (25 U.S.C. 
     415), is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), in the second sentence, by inserting 
     ``and land held in trust for the Kalispel Tribe of Indians, 
     the Puyallup Tribe of Indians,'' after ``the Kalispel Indian 
     Reservation''; and
       (2) in subsection (b), by inserting ``, the Puyallup Tribe 
     of Indians, the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, or the 
     Kalispel Tribe of Indians'' after ``Tulalip Tribes''.

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the committee-
reported amendments be agreed to, the bill, as amended, be read a third 
time and passed, the motions to reconsider be laid upon the table, with 
no intervening action or debate, and that any statements relating to 
the bill be printed in the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The committee amendments were agreed to.
  The bill (S. 2906), as amended, was ordered to be engrossed for a 
third reading, was read the third time, and passed.

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