Byron Dorgan: “There was zero money requested, inexplicably, for water projects in the economic recovery package.”

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.

The Indian Health Service has failed their patients.

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.

You cannot allow this to continue. This is not fair. It is not even legal.