Byron Dorgan: “We need to make progress. The fact is this river is critically important to the upstream and downstream States.”

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

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.

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.

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.