Byron Dorgan: “I think the budget request is a huge disappointment in a number of areas.”

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.

I know the word 'privatization' has been used. I did not use it.

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

The agency promised changes, but the situation has only disintegrated since.