[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6751]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          KEEP THE PROMISE ACT

  (Mr. GOSAR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOSAR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to draw attention to the serious 
issue facing my home State of Arizona.
  For several years, I have been actively involved in a troubling off-
reservation gaming issue in my home State of Arizona involving the 
Tohono O'odham Nation. The tribe has been attempting to move from their 
ancestral lands in Tucson into another tribe's former reservation in 
the Phoenix metropolitan area for the sole purpose of building a Las 
Vegas-style casino.
  Tohono's dismissal of their promise of a voter-approved compact and 
their dismissal of a promise to build no additional casinos in Phoenix 
is not something that Congress can ignore when the result will be so 
harmful to what has been a national model.
  Furthermore, Tohono has falsely been claiming a victory in court. 
This sentiment is factually wrong. The Tohono won nothing based on the 
merits. Rather, the case was dismissed on the draconian doctrine of 
sovereign immunity, which we, Congress, have jurisdiction and oversight 
of, rather than the courts.
  I urge immediate adoption of this commonsense legislation that has 
passed this same body last Congress and has already passed committee by 
unanimous consent.

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