Byron Dorgan: “We have a significant need to do the research to try to evaluate how we build electric generating plants that are going…”

The status quo will not be tolerated.

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.

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.

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