Byron Dorgan: “I applaud what you are trying to do to establish accountability.”

Safety always comes up. There is always an issue of what is happening around them in their environment that causes them concern about their safety.

The question is not the endpoint. The question is what is the route to get to that endpoint.

I just want to say that I am concerned about the court's decision in Carcieri and the impact it may have on those tribes that were recognized after 1934.

I spent much of my time as Chairman of this committee focused on increasing funding for the IHS and trying to force some systemic changes in the bureaucracy that plagues that agency.