Byron Dorgan: “I am not interested in transferring the problems from one region of our State to another.”

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.

You know, I do not know that I can offer you much advice except to say we have painted ourselves into a fiscal policy corner.

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