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Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s bill must wait until 2019
By Tanner SteningPosted Dec 21, 2018
MASHPEE — Even if the federal government avoided a partial shutdown late Friday night, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe is going to have to wait until the next congressional session to see if its reservation can successfully be secured by federal lawmakers.
An eleventh-hour effort to fold the Mashpee Tribe Reservation Reaffirmation Act — thought to be the tribe’s last hope of putting an end to litigation that has stymied its proposed resort-casino on reservation land in Taunton — into a funding measure intended to keep the government open fell short on Thursday, according to U.S. Rep. William Keating, D-Mass. Keating introduced the legislation earlier this year.
Lawmakers had attempted to weave the language into a public land bill that appeared to be moving forward; but the effort ultimately failed, he said, as the urgency of dealing with the impending shutdown pared down the possibility for smaller bills to make it into the funding measure, called the continuing resolution. The resolution was in danger late Friday of not being passed in any case as lawmakers scrambled to make a deal with the president.
The tribe bill had already faced resistance from Rhode Island’s senators, as well as lawmakers from Connecticut, Keating said. The Rhode Island delegation quietly came out against the legislation earlier this year in an apparent effort to protect that state’s casino interests.
Cromwell did not respond to a question about how many layoffs would take place in tribal government or a request that he confirm the unemployment figure cited by Grijalva.Related content
https://www.capecodtimes.com/news/20181221/mashpee-wampanoag-tribes-bill-must-wait-until-2019
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