Byron Dorgan: “But, there needs to be a local sponsor for that. Is that correct?”

I spent much of my time as Chairman of this committee focused on increasing funding for the IHS and trying to force some systemic changes in the bureaucracy that plagues that agency.

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.

We need and the people in the Great Plains need, concrete results.