Byron Dorgan: “My understanding is that $6.7 million that is owed to providers here in this region has grown to nearly $10 million.”

This is not happening.

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.

People's lives are at risk.

Senator Dorgan once said it takes four agencies and 49 steps. I think with the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, we say it is seven agencies and 100 steps.