Byron Dorgan: “Thank you to you, Senator Dorgan, for having this most important oversight hearing.”

People's lives are at risk.

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

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

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.