[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 146 (Wednesday, December 3, 2014)]
[House]
[Pages H8288-H8289]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                NAHASDA

  (Ms. HANABUSA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. HANABUSA. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, this body reauthorized the 
Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996, 
a true

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bipartisan effort and, more importantly, the right thing to do for all 
our Native people.
  In it we reauthorized title 8, which addressed the Native people of 
my State, the Native Hawaiians. NAHASDA had expired for Native 
Hawaiians in 2005, and it has taken almost 10 years to make this right. 
Now they are authorized to the year 2019.
  Home, land, or ``Aina,'' as it is called in Hawaiian, is critical to 
all people, especially our Native people. This Congress in 1921 passed 
the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920, and this reauthorization 
will bring us closer to meeting the dreams of those who are 50 percent 
blood quantum or more.
  I thank my colleagues for the voice vote and ask them to join me in 
asking the Senate to pass this reauthorization for housing assistance 
for all Native people.

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