Byron Dorgan: “Listen, somebody is going to earmark all of these dollars. The question is it downtown or in the State governments.”

I do not support privatization. I told you what I do support and why.

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

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.

I know that everyone sitting at this table has a passionate desire to fix these problems.