From newsobserver.com by Ryan A. Emanuel 12/15/2010
Point of View/Opinion
CARY — It is painful seeing important legislation languish on the House or Senate floor for a year or more only to expire at the end of a congressional session. Multiplying that feeling by 61 sessions of Congress gives a sense of the frustration and looming disappointment felt by North Carolina’s Lumbee Tribe, American Indians who have been petitioning Congress for federal recognition since 1888.
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