Byron Dorgan: “We urge the enactment of the Indian Energy Promotion and Parity Act.”

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.

They need our help because we are the ones who made the promise and we are the ones not keeping it.

The status quo will not be tolerated.

The problems facing American Indian and Alaska Native children are so significant that only concerted action by the Executive branch agencies and Congress would begin to address them.