Byron Dorgan: “Senator Thune, thank you very much.”

We have now reached the tipping point that requires, in my judgment, action by Congress.

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

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.

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