Congress gives 72 acres of forest land to the Quinault Indian Nation.
H.R. 2389 — Quinault Indian Nation Land Transfer Act · Filed by Emily Randall (D-WA) · Introduced Mar 26, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill transfers about 72 acres of forest land in Washington State. The land goes to the Department of the Interior to hold for the Quinault Indian Nation. The land becomes part of their tribe's land. The tribe cannot use the land for gaming. The U.S. will not clean up any pollution on the land.
Who it affects
The Quinault Indian Nation gains control of land and expanded tribe territory. The tribe gets more land to govern and manage.
One thing to notice
The U.S. will not clean up any pollution already on the land. The Quinault Nation will inherit the land with any existing pollution.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Mar 26, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Mar 26, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Natural Resources and Senate Committee on Indian Affairs · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources”
- Apr 30, 2025 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Subcommittee Hearings Held”
- Jun 25, 2025 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Jun 25, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent”
- Dec 9, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5081)”
- Dec 9, 2025 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Crank moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
2 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 6 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $788,433 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 16 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 41% of bills with any report.
Emily Randall, who sponsored the bill, received $326,681 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- College of American Pathologists — $640,433 in 3 reports
- Quinault Indian Nation — $148,000 in 3 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- tribe's land — Land set aside by the U.S. for a Native American tribe.
- gaming — Gambling, such as casinos or slot machines.
- pollution — Chemicals or substances that can harm people or nature.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,861 characters) on Aug 20, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,342 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 17, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-18.
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