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Mary Peltola: “That process only accounts for 1% of federal spending.”

Featuring: Mary Peltola, Democratic | Former U.S. House Representative, Alaska At-Large

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Rep. Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) at National Congress of American Indians

Published | Video Starts at 05:35

I like to encourage native organizations to track this process closely and to consider whether your tribe or tribal nonprofit, the priorities that you have might be addressed through the CPF or CDS process, you know, and having said that, That process only accounts for 1% of federal spending. And we've just got to continue to focus on raising the top line for our funding across indian country, particularly when it comes to advance and continuing appropriations covered all these things. (05:35–05:40)

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Asserts that community project funding/congressionally directed spending accounts for only 1% of federal spending.

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