Byron Dorgan: “I want you to make things happen and make good things happen. So I support what you are trying to do.”

I think what Governor Engler indicated is the most important point, and that is the stability of funding for a project of this type is essential.

A user fee structure...would provide a stable stream of funding.

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

Tribes ceded close to 200 million acres of land during the treaty-making and removal periods prior to 1881.