The Choctaw Nation also has the right to appoint a non-voting delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, per the 1830 Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek; as of 2020 however, no delegate has been named or sent to the Congress by the Choctaw Nation. Chief Gary Batton is said to be observing the process of the Cherokee Nation nominating their treaty-stipulated delegate to the U.S. House before proceeding. In late June 2020, Chief Batton sent a letter to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to discuss Choctaw Nation membership as a non-voting delegate to the House, and concerning Maxine Waters' provision to withhold federal coronavirus aid from the Tribe unless the Choctaw Nation "resolved the Freedman issue." Batton said in the letter that would require violating the Choctaw Constitution and the 1866 Treaty with the U.S. Government and was "a non-starter," and asked that Pelosi “not permit the House to adopt any legislative provision that would so fundamentally destroy the self-determination authority of the Choctaw Nation.”