Byron Dorgan: “The only limits on you and your life are the limits you put on yourself.”

This is not about politics; everyone on this dais knows that.

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.

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.

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.