Byron Dorgan: “Bad ideas have unlimited shelf life here in the Nation's capital, and also that bad ideas are bipartisan.”

Obviously the future is education. We have a 50 percent high school dropout rate among Native American youth.

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.

You cannot allow this to continue. This is not fair. It is not even legal.

Now, we need to change. We need to do it quickly and effectively.