Byron Dorgan: “Might I ask the question, are you moving in your committee toward requiring a pedigree and serial numbers? Is that where…”

Tribes ceded close to 200 million acres of land during the treaty-making and removal periods prior to 1881.

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

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.

The fundamental problem found in the Dorgan report in 2010 and the findings now before the House is IHS, LEADERSHIP was failing then as it is failing now.