Oversight Hearing, Business Meeting

Business Meeting to consider several bills & Oversight Hearing to “Examine the President’s Budget Requests for Fiscal Year 2027 for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service”

Date: May 20, 2026
Time: 2:30 PM
Location: Dirksen
Room: 628
Agenda:

1. S. 236, To amend the Act of August 9, 1955 (commonly known as the “Long-Term Leasing Act”), to authorize leases of up to 99 years for land in the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Reservation and land held in trust for the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), and for other purposes. (Markey)
2. S. 1513, Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe Project Lands Restoration Act (Cantwell)
3. S. 2098, Southcentral Foundation Land Transfer Act of 2025 (Murkowski)
4. S. 2735, Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act (Padilla)
5. H.R. 681, To amend the Act of August 9, 1955 (commonly known as the “Long-Term Leasing Act”), to authorize leases of up to 99 years for land in the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Reservation and land held in trust for the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), and for other purposes. (Keating)
6. H.R. 2302, Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act (McClintock)
7. H.R. 2388, Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe Project Lands Restoration Act (Randall)
8. H.R. 3620, Southcentral Foundation Land Transfer Act of 2025 (Begich)

Witnesses

Panel 1

Panel I

The Honorable William "Billy" Kirkland

Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs
Department of the Interior
Washington, D.C.

Panel I

Mr. Clayton Fulton

Chief of Staff
Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services
Accompanied by Ms. Jillian Curtis, Director, Office of Finance and Accounting, Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C