Byron Dorgan: “I do not support the cap-and-trade plan now being debated in Congress. I think it is the wrong solution. I do not…”

This is a heavy lift. This is something that needs to be done.

What you and members of this Committee can do and will do by putting the spotlight on this spot will save lives.

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.

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.