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Bill to clarify Speaker’s voting requirements Fails

COUNCIL STILL DEBATING LEGISLATION 0056-18 WHICH CLARIFIES THAT SPEAKER ONLY VOTES IN TIE VOTE AND NOT IN 2/3 VOTES. DELEGATE DWIGHT WITHERSPOON NOW LEADING AMENDMENT TO ALLOW SPEAKER TO VOTE ON 3/4 VOTES AND HIGHER. DELEGATE TSOSIE SECONDS WITHERSPOON’S AMENDMENT. NO DEBATE SO COUNCIL VOTING ON DELEGATE WITHERSPOON’S AMENDMENT. 4-14. DELEGATES VOTING YES ARE LEONARD […]

Speaker Bates: Quarterly report

Navajo Council votes to hear from Delegates on SPEAKER’S REPORT without having Speaker Bates present his report verbally. Copies of Speaker’s written report are distributed to Delegates. DELEGATE AMBER CROTTY need more info on Navajo Indian Irrigation Project. And election office does ppor job of registering and re-registering voters, how get absentee ballots to military […]

Navajo Nation roundtable with U.S. Sens. Barrasso & McCain Friday

***NAVAJO NATION OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT MEDIA ADVISORY*** President Begaye and Vice President Nez to hold Roundtable Discussion with Barrasso, McCain WINDOW ROCK — On Friday, Sept. 16, at 1:30 p.m. MDT, U.S. Senator John Barrasso, R-Wym., chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and former committee chairman and current Senate Committee […]