I want to tell my colleagues of the kind of crisis that exists. Again, we had a blizzard that in many parts of North Dakota gave us 15, 18, and 20 inches of snowfall on top of a circumstance that already existed that would have provided us and will provide us with a flood that is a 100-year event. So this is an enormously difficult time for North Dakotans.
Addressing the severe weather crisis in North Dakota during Senate floor debate.
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Senator Dorgan once said it takes four agencies and 49 steps. I think with the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, we say it is seven agencies and 100 steps.
Tribes ceded close to 200 million acres of land during the treaty-making and removal periods prior to 1881.
We have now reached the tipping point that requires, in my judgment, action by Congress.
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