Byron Dorgan: “I hope you will be available if we wish to submit some written questions to be able to respond to them.”

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

We have now reached the tipping point that requires, in my judgment, action by Congress.

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.

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.