Byron Dorgan: “It ought to require all of us to be urgent in our request to the FAA to make progress on dealing with these issues.”

The status quo will not be tolerated.

Obviously the future is education. We have a 50 percent high school dropout rate among Native American youth.

I just want to say that I am concerned about the court's decision in Carcieri and the impact it may have on those tribes that were recognized after 1934.

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