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From Texas Standard: Last week, Rep. Don Young, a Republican from Alaska, stepped to the microphone on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Kym Koch Thompson/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Last week, Rep. Don Young, a Republican from Alaska, stepped to the microphone on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. Young is the dean of the House – the longest-serving representative in the body. He spoke to praise a group of Texans who’d filed a bill to correct a law that Young himself had helped write. “You know, it’s a strange thing: you hang around here long enough, you keep seeing the other end of your tail,” Young said. “When we introduced these bills, there was never any intention to exclude these two tribes. N...

The U.S. House voted to pass Reps. Tony Gonzales and Veronica Escobar's bipartisan, fair tribal gaming bill to the Senate on Wednesday.

The U.S. House passed a bill Wednesday that would allow two Texas tribes to offer electronic bingo on reservations, possibly ending a years-long battle...

"I urge my colleagues to join me in protecting our Native American tribes sovereignty and ensuring that they have the ability to engage in the same way other tribes are able to," Escobar said in the House chamber before the vote Wednesday. The bill would not expand gaming in Texas, but it would expand economic opportunity to both tribal communities. In 2016, the Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas opened Naskila Entertainment, a gaming facility near Livingston, Texas, which brought 561 permanent jobs and injected almost $140 million into the local economy.  "This will benefit the city of El ...