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Congress passes FY23 budget for Executive Branch

The 12-member Congress also adjourned its 2022 Tzi Sho Session after completing its business on Oct. 3, which was the 24th and final day of the regular session

Ahead of the Osage Nation’s 2023 fiscal year start, the Eighth ON Congress voted to pass the remaining operations budgets for the three-branch government before its Oct. 1 start.

The 12-member Congress also adjourned its 2022 Tzi Sho Session after completing its business on Oct. 3, which was the 24th and final day of the regular session. 

Congress passed the following bills and resolutions on Sept. 29 and 30:

ONCA 22-95 (sponsored by Congresswoman Paula Stabler) is an “Act to provide an appropriation to the Executive Branch of the Osage Nation for Fiscal Year 2023 in the amount of $56,491,612.” This appropriation bill contains the FY 2023 budgets for the various departments, programs, entities and boards/ commissions that are mostly funded with tribal dollars and department revenue. The bill passed with 11 “yes” votes and one abstention from Congressional Speaker Alice Goodfox.

ONCA 22-112 (Congresswoman Jodie Revard) is an “Act to authorize and appropriate $500,000 to the Osage Nation Property Improvement Fund for improvements to the Congressional Building for the Legislative Branch.”

ONCA 22-114 (Stabler) is an “Act to amend ONCA 22-94 to provide a supplemental appropriation to the Executive Branch in Non-Tribal funds in the amount of $213,344.”

ONCA 22-115 (Stabler) is an “Act to amend ONCA 22-95 to authorize an appropriation modification and supplemental appropriations to the Executive Branch in Non-Tribal funds in the amount of $243,064 of Non-Tribal funds.”

ONCA 22-116 (Stabler) is an “Act to provide an appropriation to Si-Si A-Pe-Txa (Health Authority Board) for fiscal year 2023 in the amount of $153,490 of Non-Tribal funds.”

ONCR 22-07 (Revard) is a “Resolution Declaring Congressional consent and approval of the Osage Nation Gaming Enterprise Board’s Annual Plan of Operation for fiscal year 2023.” The resolution passed 9-3 with “yes” votes from Congress members John Maker, Eli Potts, Whitney Red Corn, Pam Shaw, Stabler, Joe Tillman, Scott BigHorse, Otto Hamilton and Billy Keene. “No” votes came from Revard, Lemon and Goodfox.

ONCR 22-16 (BigHorse) is a “Resolution to approve the bylaws for The Place to Borrow Money (The Nation’s Community Development Financial Institution) public purpose corporation in accordance with the Articles of Incorporation.”

ONCR 22-17 (Red Corn) is a “Resolution to support the repeal of House Bill 1775 by the Oklahoma Legislature in the next legislative session for the benefit of the school districts of Oklahoma.”

To view filed legislation and the Congressional calendar for upcoming scheduled special sessions and committee meetings, go online to: www.osagenation-nsn.gov/who-we-are/legislative-branch

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  • Benny Polacca

    Title: Senior Reporter

    Email: bpolacca@osagenation-nsn.gov

    Instagram: @bpolacca

    Topic Expertise: Government, Tribal Government, Community

    Languages spoken: English, basic knowledge of Spanish and French

    Benny Polacca (Hopi/ Havasupai/ Pima/ Tohono O’odham) started working at the Osage News in 2009 as a reporter in Pawhuska, Okla., where he’s covered various stories and events that impact the Osage Nation and Osage people. Those newspaper contributions cover a broad spectrum of topics and issues from tribal government matters to features. As a result, Polacca has gained an immeasurable amount of experience in covering Native American affairs, government issues and features so the Osage readership can be better informed about the tribal current affairs the newspaper covers.

    Polacca is part of the Osage News team that was awarded the Native American Journalists Association's Elias Boudinet Free Press Award in 2014 and has won numerous NAJA media awards, as well as awards from the Oklahoma Press Association and SPJ Oklahoma Pro Chapter, for storytelling coverage and photography.

    Polacca earned his bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University and also participated in the former American Indian Journalism Institute at the University of South Dakota where he was introduced to the basics of journalism and worked with seasoned journalists there and later at The Forum daily newspaper covering the Fargo, N.D. area where he worked as the weeknight reporter.

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Title: Senior Reporter

Email: bpolacca@osagenation-nsn.gov

Instagram: @bpolacca

Topic Expertise: Government, Tribal Government, Community

Languages spoken: English, basic knowledge of Spanish and French

Benny Polacca (Hopi/ Havasupai/ Pima/ Tohono O’odham) started working at the Osage News in 2009 as a reporter in Pawhuska, Okla., where he’s covered various stories and events that impact the Osage Nation and Osage people. Those newspaper contributions cover a broad spectrum of topics and issues from tribal government matters to features. As a result, Polacca has gained an immeasurable amount of experience in covering Native American affairs, government issues and features so the Osage readership can be better informed about the tribal current affairs the newspaper covers.

Polacca is part of the Osage News team that was awarded the Native American Journalists Association's Elias Boudinet Free Press Award in 2014 and has won numerous NAJA media awards, as well as awards from the Oklahoma Press Association and SPJ Oklahoma Pro Chapter, for storytelling coverage and photography.

Polacca earned his bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University and also participated in the former American Indian Journalism Institute at the University of South Dakota where he was introduced to the basics of journalism and worked with seasoned journalists there and later at The Forum daily newspaper covering the Fargo, N.D. area where he worked as the weeknight reporter.

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