Byron Dorgan: “Congress has repeatedly stated that the trust responsibility to provide health care extends to American Indians…”

You cannot allow this to continue. This is not fair. It is not even legal.

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.

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