Byron Dorgan: “If we have to tighten our belt, and I believe we do, I believe we are going to have to cut some Federal spending.”

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.

The status quo will not be tolerated.

We need and the people in the Great Plains need, concrete results.

You know, I do not know that I can offer you much advice except to say we have painted ourselves into a fiscal policy corner.