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OCR Page 1 of 61Eric P. Liu
02/01/2000 06:09:36 PM
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Forwarded by Eric P. Liu/OPD/EOP on 02/01/2000 06:09 PM
Eric P. Liu
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Clinton: $1.2B For Indian Country
By Matt Kelley
Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2000; 5:44 p.m. EST
WASHINGTON - President Clinton plans to ask Congress for $1.2 billion
in new spending on American Indian programs, including hundreds of
millions more to build schools, hire police and improve health care on
reservations, a White House aide says.
Clinton announced the Indian spending initiative in his State of the Union
address last week, but did not include specifics. That plan, to be included
next week in Clinton's proposed 2001 budget, includes new or expanded
Indian programs in nearly every federal agency, said Lynn Cutler, the
president's top adviser on Indian issues.
"It's important that we get every agency of the federal government thinking
about Indians and employing Indian people," Cutler said Tuesday, a day
after she outlined the plan to tribal leaders at a meeting of the United South
and Eastern Tribes, which represents 23 tribes from Maine to Texas.
Details of the proposal include $300 million to build at least six new
reservation schools, $650 million for housing programs, a $117 million
increase for reservation road repairs, about $300 million more for the Indian