If you're really interested in states rights, why you would be proposing this amendment and particularly if you happen to be from Texas, which may be the center of states rights. So here we go. Here we go. What are we doing here? If you're a tribal government and you want to put a pipeline through that tribal land, the tribal government has absolutely nothing to say about it. If the Secretary certifies that it's necessary for defense. Or maybe it's a community or maybe it happens to be a river or a lake. (05:32–05:41)
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Asserts that the amendment would negate tribal governments' authority over pipeline projects on their land.
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