chief stevenson adkins. chairman scott gabaldon, who is accompanied by his attorney chairman an tucker, and supervirz, dye yan dilon, supervisor of napa county. your written record will appear in the hearing record. i ask you to keep your statements limited to five minutes in rule 4a. our microphones are not automatic. i want you to explain how the timing lights work. when you begin to speak, the clerk will start the timer and a green light will appear. after four minutes, the yellow light will appear. you can conclude the statement. at five minutes the red light will come on. you may complete your sentence, but at that time i will ask you to stop. one thing, keep in mind, that all of you at the table, i'm very strict about procedures. designated to the house of representatives preserve, not to assume the house -- make sure that the house conducts its business in an early fashion, but to permit members to properly understand and participate in business of the house. therefore, i want to remind our witness th

and chief adkins, in your written testimony -- >> turn your mike on. >> chief adkins, in your written testimony you state that in the administrative process fails to recognize that one size does not necessarily fit all in the acknowledgement process. can you explain in what ways you believe that it fails to do so? >> the -- the administrative process asks for documentation that -- that we just can't produce because of the destroyed courthouses that had our vital statistics, because of a state that went through and sought to destroy all vital statistics that referred to us as indian people. even when the indian reorganization act was put in play as it was called, the -- the head of the bureau of vital statistics said there's no indians in virginia. despite that, government officials came to virginia. they interviewed people. they photographed places and things, and they said these folks are indians, even at that. the bureaucracy that had been created in the state precluded us from being part of that, so -- so as you look at those seven criteria that have kind of become iron-clad, we do

chief steven adkins speaking on behalf of the six virginia tribes. chairman scott gabaldon who's accompanied by his attorney. chairman ann tucker, muscogee nation. chief weaver of the choctaw indians and supervisor diane dillon, napa county, district three. and i do thank all my witnesses. all our witnesses your written testimony will appear in the hearing record, so we ask you to keep your statement to five minutes as i outlined in rule 4a. our microphones are not automatic so, please, press the button when you're ready to begin. i also want you to explain how our -- want to explain how our timing lights work. our clerk start the timer, and a green light will appear. after four minutes a yellow light will appear and you will begun to conclude your statementment at five minutes -- statement. at five minutes the red light will come on. you may complete your sentence, but i will ask you to stop. keep in mind all of you at the table, i'm very strict about procedures. dignity to the house of the representatives preserved, not to assume that the house con

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and it's estimated, marshall adkins, a renowned analyst with raymond james. he's estimated that will fall to 26% by 2015. that's just around the corner. and also, would cut our trade deficit by 82%, by 2020. so it's tremendous, where we're headed, and what it's done. but most importantly, we're into a cheaper price regime at a discounted price regime for both oil and gas for the consumer. so lower costs to the consumers here in america. about $15 a barrel, right now, differs between us and brent's price, and we're talking $2 natural gas here and we're talking $12 natural gas in china today. so it's a tremendous difference. but what the impact this new production to america, it's better national security, drastically reduced deficit, and deficits. job creation, good-paying middle class jobs. we've seen that in oklahoma, texas, north dakota, kansas, montana. you know, wherever oil and gas is. so what we're doing is estimated by api, we could 1.2 million jobs to the 9.3 million jobs that's currently in our industry today, by 2030. and in the american wealth crea

state representative rocky adkins, one of the most powerful politicians, thundered at michael moore,predecessor about american electric power switching out of coal. how much pressure are you from under from local people to keep using coal? >> jim, i think it just shows, the challenges we face. i mean, you have community that are finally realizing these plants are having phono to fund futures if they exist or not. if you don't exist, you have tax base, fire protection, police protection, all those types of things, and these plants are located in areas of the country, in many cases, they are the town. so it really is starting to come to bear here, what epa is doing and what the impact is it's going to have on communities, jobs, so forth and it makes it a tremendous challenge from a decisional process to find, oh, you going to spend a billion for a new scrubber or put in natural gas or nothing at all and take from the marketplace? so those kind of options are continually being evaluated. >> who is your real boss? is it the rate payers, the people who rely on you for power. the public ut

i will begin with steven adkins, chief of the tribe. you're up. >> the subject which looms large across all of the indian country i think to provide for those trips seeking acknowledgment in sovereign nations the process they are pursuing. however in some specific areas i speaking on behalf of the monacans and h.r. 783. chairman young of the virginian in the hands to represent the very essence of democracy and freedom as we participated in the fence both in the commonwealth of virginia and the united kingdom commemorated the anniversary of the english settlement in america. we took pride in representing the commonwealth of virginia and the united states of america descendants of both tribes who welcome the first settlement to virginia to this place that is now called america. however when all of the hoopla festivities were over, we remained unrecognized as sovereign nations by the united states of america. virginian indians lived under the treaty of 60 which ironically was called oracles of peace with the english crown until the formati